[flinmaster]

I didn't sell my company to MSFT but I imagine it is the same. There will be a period where everything is great and you feel like you have freedom then that will end and you will be at their whims.

My advice is: day-one stop thinking about it as your company and stop caring. Do what needs to be done to help your employees and to make the transition to MSFT a good one and then leave. I lost a great deal of money because I cared and stay around. If I had sold my stock at the first chance I could and left I'd be a millionaire many time over. I lost it all because I made dumb decisions that involved caring about my company when it wasn't mine anymore..

[offtop5]

Did you ever have a chance to make that money again. Or do you still have to work. I think the average tech founder has quite a few failures before he or she strikes it big ( if ever )

[Maven911]

Thanks - not my company though, I am just a worker bee in a fairly large org though with a small feel about to join the big tech mothership

[brudgers]

Consider a job search. For reasons that have nothing to do with you personally, there may be no intent to make you a Microsoft employee.

If you are searching you don’t have to take another job if offered, but you have a contingency plan and other options should things not go as swimmingly as a person might hope.

[Maven911]

Thank you and yes planning to do that just in case

[redis_mlc]

> I am just a worker bee

It's pretty common to have to re-interview for engineering jobs with the acquirer. A lot of engineers get cut in that scenario.

So make sure you update your resume and ask around if re-interviewing will be required.