alt Hacker NewsI applied to neon last week and then the news broke about the acquisition. They rejected it this morning — I have never been happier to receive a rejection to an application.
This would’ve been three acquisitions straight for me and… I’m okay, they’re awful. I just want stability.
Congrats to the neon team! I use and love neon. Really hope this doesn’t change them too much.
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Had personally the opposite experience. Acquisitions being one of the most interesting times to be hired into.
In a couple cases I’ve been recruited because I have a history of scaling and integrating acquisitions into companies successfully
I've been part of an acquisition as a first-year engineering manager, during which I had to navigate subsequent two rounds of layoffs. I was also a part of the group to help restructure teams and help make calls on who to keep. Morale was terrible, and the cultures also did not gel at all.
It led to some serious burnout and I took several months off. I'm now happily working as an IC again.
> Really hope this doesn’t change them too much.
My guess is that this team gets rolled into Online Tables tech, which would make product sense.
https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/machine-learning/feature-...
what if you had joined at neon's previous valuation (whatever it was) and got a sudden payday (assuming you had juuuust enough vesting)
I got hired at Kenna Security a month before they were acquired by Cisco and it was such a miserable experience that I won't work for any company the Kenna leadership are involved with, nor would I ever consider working at Cisco.