Well, except that they just exterminated your former employer and all your stock options and compensation bonuses are tied to passing that gauntlet? It's more

Well, except that they just exterminated your former employer and all your stock options and compensation bonuses are tied to passing that gauntlet? It's more like getting a layoff and then offered an interview for a new job. For me, we didn't have to do the interview. But there were a lot of other strings attached, most drastic being having to move cities (or have a 2-hour-each-way commute). The money makes it worthwhile, but it's not a happy happy joy joy moment. I also got a peavish Google recruiter all pissed at me about the fact that we were sharing notes with each other about the offers they were sending us, which I thought was pretty funny.