Interviewing to keep your job sounds brutal, especially given how much of a crap-shoot it is whether the problem you get is one you can solve in 45 minutes. Whe

Interviewing to keep your job sounds brutal, especially given how much of a crap-shoot it is whether the problem you get is one you can solve in 45 minutes. When you are job hunting, you can interview a bunch of places so that hopefully one of them succeeds, even if the per-interview pass rate is low. But in an acquisition context, where it's just one interview, wouldn't we expect the vast majority of the team to fail? Are these interviews graded more gently? Or do employees of acquired companies actually do meaningfully better in the interview process than people off the street?