You never hear “Aw man, the new owners are awesome! Everything’s so much better now!”, it’s always a downgrade, usually a significant one. It’s never about improvement and always about cutting costs and leaving the buyee company to die.
You never hear “Aw man, the new owners are awesome! Everything’s so much better now!”, it’s always a downgrade, usually a significant one. It’s never about improvement and always about cutting costs and leaving the buyee company to die.
My company got bought out by a much larger company a few years ago. The thing I always tell people is that all of the problems with a small, family-owned company pretty much evaporated immediately. However, they were replaced with a whole set of new problems.
All of the openly racist old men are gone, and I feel a lot safer at work wearing my hair long and telling (select people) that I am queer. Now, there is private equity and uncertainty that there didn’t used to be. I got lucky and some of my coworkers didn’t. My new management team is wonderful and I do make a bit more money than I used to. Overall, I’m happy with some of the things that have happened. But, I am planning to get as much as I can out of the experience and eventually find something else.