YES! I worked at a start-up that was later acquired by a mega corp. When it was a start-up, it felt like we were focused on growing the pie. Once we were acqui

YES! I worked at a start-up that was later acquired by a mega corp. When it was a start-up, it felt like we were focused on growing the pie. Once we were acquired, everyone just wanted a bigger slice for themselves. I also felt like we had a ton of terrible presentations, and it felt like a braggy culture whereby you had to promote the work you did and make it seem more important. The reality was we all knew who the good engineers were and who the bad ones were. It was just annoying to have to listen to people talk about a widget they'd built that tbh nobody really cared about. I worked with people to make their talks less about promotion and more about education; that at least made the presentations bearable and engineers felt like they might have learned something from them. Eventually though I realized I didn't want to be in that sort of culture and joined a smaller company.