Google could hire an aws engineer to work on gmail, but not google app engine. · the 37-year-old, polish born engineer , is so obsessed with the finances of ordinary people that he turned his obsession into an e-commerce marketplace that caters to them. Can amazon and microsoft block employees from joining competitors? Ibm and microsoft have mounted similar lawsuits. · tianyi gao, who worked as a software engineer at google , left his job at the company to take up a new role at amazon only to realize that his offer had been rescinded. · marketing vp brian hall signed a sweeping noncompete, and then went to work at google. Some technology workers. · earlier in march, reuters reported that a former google engineer was indicted in california on charges of stealing trade secrets related to ai from the alphabet unit. Did amazon enforce a non-compete agreement? Why did a google engineer get a rescinded amazon offer? Thats ignoring the fact that non- competes are super hard to enforce and regionally bound. Did googles former engineer improperly acquire trade secrets? Amazon has filed suit against brian hall, a newly hired google vp and former vp of product marketing. · that is, amazon s pursuit of the non- compete against our engineer was their way of shooting an escapee in the back -- and sending a sharp message to any other aws inmates with similar ambitions. · amazon is challenging former executive brian hall in washington state court after he took a job at cloud rival google.