[tjpnz]

>They had a whole team dedicated to building a shitty front end component library that we all had to use to reskin our apps in order to achieve design consistency.

I feel awful for the engineers who end up working on these efforts, it's heartbreaking and ultimately a wasted endeavour. Your small team can't keep up, people start working around you (even actively undermining you) and eventually that company edict forcing everyone to adopt said library is forgotten in the name of expediency. I've seen it so many times now to the point where it's become a farce.

[version_five]

What I've seen, it's only the people who are have checked out and are happy to stop trying that stay. Maybe they decide they want to spend more time with their family and not worry about their career anymore, or sometimes they just wouldn't be competitive in the job market. But I think, especially when it's a big company buying a small startup, all the people who actually wanted to be in a startup leave as soon as they can