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by tshaddox 833 days ago
> He then explained that the Airplane product would be shut down, but that most of us would be getting “extremely strong” offers from Airtable. However, we’d have to do interviews for leveling purposes, and the financial details wouldn’t be made available to us until later.

That's a layoff, right?

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I went through an acqui-hire with the same structure - ironically, it was to be part of Ben's group at a different company.

In our case, they genuinely wanted the whole engineering team, so the interviews were pretty friendly, and our offers were fair. I'm not sure that was the case here, and I'm sure that came through in the tone of the conversation.