re: Anyone have experience with their company getting bought out?

I worked for Gulf States Utilities back in the late eighties or early nineties and we were bought out by Entergy. The first few years were okay. They had all kinds of stuff they would give us (the only thing I cared about was they would give us Titleist ballata golf balls). Everything had their logo on it. I worked in a power generating plant. I was just a maintenance hand back then. We had 22 electricians on site. They had a round of layoffs after about two years that reduced that number to I think fifteen people. Then a couple of years later they had another layoff that brought that number down to ten electricians. After that I started actively looking for a job on the nuclear side of the company. It was more secure as far as job security but it sucked working in the nuclear plants. I ended up retiring in 2016 after 32 years with the company. My advice is to try and look down the road as to what the company buying your companies ultimate goal is and plan accordingly. After I transferred to the nuclear side they reduced the amount of electricians at that fossil fuel plant to four a couple of years after that. They eventually shut that plant down so I was glad I made the move when I did. That’s my story

Yes. My company got bought out by slb and it was a horrible experience

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Very likely within 12 months

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My husband has worked for two companies that have been bought out - almost everyone was gone in 1-2 years

For me, at the admin level, a company buyout was a great big scoop of HELL. I would explain why, but you guys would never read 87 pages of post. The shortest I can write is it was the worst thing in a 50 year career that cost me a 200 mile move and finding a new job. I came out ok in the end but for years I said if I passed a certain person in the sold out company on the interstate and they were in a burning wreck, I would only stop to watch them burn up. Shame on me. Even that is only added to the pile of stuff that makes me feel bad about the sell out.

It just depends on the company and their intentions. Will you maintain hour dba and be a subsidiary of the purchaser? Do they plan on maintaining the location or fold it into an existing location? There are a lot of possibilities.

If we get bought, I'll likely never have to work again. This is not common at my job level, but I insisted on it when we negotiated my compensation.

If they are buying your company just for the IP or physical assets, there is a good chance you are losing your job. If they are buying your company for what you actually create and plan to build on top of that, you might keep your job plus get a retention offer just to make sure that you stick around. I got a very generous retention offer when my former employer was bought out along with almost everyone I worked with.