The same thing haired at my company this year. It was an acquihire, straight up, and they led with that fact right off the top, but told us our existing brand,

The same thing haired at my company this year. It was an acquihire, straight up, and they led with that fact right off the top, but told us our existing brand, company, structure, etc would be unchanged until at least the end of the year. Well today we got a first look at that change, and what they’ve done is take all our managers and put them under a middle tier guy from the acquiring company then shuffle the people around so that some of us have new managers as soon as tomorrow morning. And who goes where hasn’t been announced yet either. It seems to me that in our case this is the first step of eventually eradicating the acquired company entirely, a near borg-like assimilation, just slowly enough so as not to be jarring to the engineers that they ultimately want (us). Moral of the story is that in just shot every case, the acquired company gets phased out, its evolves “assimilated”, and the new order is established on high with the unspoken hierarchy of those being acquired aren’t really part of the whole, not really anyway. You wind up getting tested as the B team even if you’re provably better than their A team. So yeah, your job is about to change and you’ll be assimilated. Have no illusions Scott their goals, the way you liked things is being killed off, intentionally. You’ll never have the political clout internally that you should because of that unspoken hierarchy, and that likely hamstring your effectiveness as a manager. In your shoes, I’d be dusting off my resume.