You can try to make whatever changes to the contract are important to you but ultimately you have to evaluate your desire for the job vs. how restrictive the non-compete is likely to be on the day you want to move on.<p>In spite of the various folks on here saying you &quot;should never sign a non-compete&quot; that&#x27;s bench advice that isn&#x27;t necessarily especially helpful. In my case, quite a few years ago my company was acquired by another (MA company that is very pro non-competes; you can probably guess who if you follow the space). We were given non-competes to sign (that, in my case at the time wasn&#x27;t really very restrictive).<p>We had a choice of signing in the sense of we could sign or we could walk out the door. Perhaps I could have walked out the door for abstract principle but, frankly, that wouldn&#x27;t have been very sensible.