I won’t keep reiterating what so many others have already written, but I’m considerably shocked at how litigious the company has become towards relatively low-level staff when attempting to exit. In my 14 years across 5 organizations, I’ve never even *heard* of suing for noncompetes below executive level.
The reason being that’s what top tech firms do? Sure, I imagine if you pay 5x what MediaMath did, then that might be reasonable, but the company always had this bizarre way of continually comparing themselves to competitors many, many times their size.
I’m not sure what’s even to be gained in that scenario — I guess a slight delay in backfilling the role and an angry, disgruntled employee in the meantime? Really gives future hires an idea as to how this company is run at the executive level.