[melony]

Are you an employee who worked his/her way up or are you one of those who were acquihired?

[kyrra]

I was previously at Cisco (which aquired Sourcefire, where I was at). That acquisition went poor, so I applied to Google. I did the interview process as a normal SWE at Google. Been there around 7 years now, all in payments.

[melony]

Ask around some of your colleagues who joined as acquihires, especially the early ones.