> Moreover, it’s a little awkward to be selling candidates on your cool, fast-moving startup when you know that you’re about to gobbled up by a larger company.

> Moreover, it’s a little awkward to be selling candidates on your cool, fast-moving startup when you know that you’re about to gobbled up by a larger company. Anecdotally, plenty of companies are still running their hiring pipeline even when someone - including HR - knows that they're about to be acquired, and nearly everyone who doesn't have a signed offer in hand (and sometimes, not even them) is going to be either completely ghosted, or get apologetic letters from a different company's HR department.