Tell HN: Beware confidentiality agreements that act as lifetime non competes 6 points by throwarayes 1 hour ago | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments Just a note of warning from personal experience.Companies don’t really need non-competes anymore. Some companies take an extremely broad interpretation of IP confidentiality, where they consider doing any work in the industry during your lifetime an inevitable confidentiality violation. They argue it would be impossible for you to work elsewhere ...