Questions tagged [acquisition]
Questions relating to one company being (or having been) acquired by another and its effects on your workplace.
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How to leverage and frame software developer work experience in taking over a challenging startup acquisition?
I've recently joined a team taking over a supposedly profitable software product of dubious quality (Poor documentation, lack of automated tests, unconventional coding conventions, high complexity, ...
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Salary negotiation before joining
I have signed my offer 2 weeks before but unfortunately later I got to know that the company is paying high for the freshers, but I have 2 yrs experience already. Can I negotiate my compensation now ...
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Should I quit my job whilst looking to a new one? [closed]
My current work that I am working has been aqcuisitioned by another company. Suddenly I feel that the company has been invaded and I will have to follow a new process. I mean I feel like that I work ...
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What are the signs of an impending private equity exit strategy?
I work for a company that is private equity (PE) backed and has primarily grown over the last 5 years through mergers and acquisitions (M&As). In fact, I joined the company via one of the ...
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How to motivate myself to go above and beyond? (after company acquisition)
I joined a locally owned company of ~50 people some 6 years ago. The owner was great, always treating the staff almost like a family and it was easy to go above and beyond for him, he always ...
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Company I was about to leave for lack of challenges being taken over [closed]
I work for a small-ish company that to me seemed content with the market niche it covered, and I was unsatisfied with a lack of opportunities to learn new things and what seemed to me management's ...
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Employee acquistion from the partnership
First of all, I don't really understand about business and corporate terms. So I'm just referring it as partner/associates/alliance companies. If company A forms partnership with company B (they form ...
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How to handle my startup being acquired before I have even started work?
I am a college student graduating in June, and I was fortunate enough to sign a new grad software engineering full-time offer back in September with a medium-sized startup. That startup has now been ...
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Betrayed by management at a new job, should I take action?
I have joined a new workplace several months ago as a software engineer, for a very software-centric project. The quality of code there was extremely poor when I arrived, but I did not let it bother ...
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Company I accepted an offer was bought. I wasn't informed of this until after I signed the offer letter
I recently accepted a position at a smaller IT company, which every employee seems to love working for. They have a reputation for paying fairly, having good benefits, and treating their employees ...
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Can I not side with my soon-to-be ex-colleagues?
My company, company A, is being sold. It has been bought by a major player in the field, company B, and everybody was quite happy with it. However, due to antitrust concerns the European Commission ...
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Difficult situation after many, many resignations after aquisition [closed]
I’m a senior team leader in a big multinational IT company, call it A. After month of negotiations, A bought a small (just less than 200 employees) IT company (call it B) located in eastern Europe ...
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I want to leave the company immediately, but I may lose money
About 2/3 weeks ago, I had a one-on-one meeting with my direct superior/manager in which I explained him that I'm considering leaving the company for different reasons (not related to him). He ...
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Can my new employer stop me from talking about salary? [closed]
Some background: I worked at a small startup in Utah for the last year and half. We were recently acquired, and we were told that we'd have our offer letters sent to us and that we could negotiate ...
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My company might get acquired.. Is my position at risk as a junior QA engineer? [closed]
I was recently told that the NYC-based startup I work for might get acquired by a pretty massive company (think Microsoft, or Amazon). This sounds like great news but now I'm getting nervous:
I'm the ...
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