[brettwall]

I had a nearly same experience with you when my company was acquired by Tencent. Most of employees don't know what's going on, but there are some strangers around in the office, actually another separate office. Only HR and finance people deal with those people from acquirer, they reviewed company contracts and some other legal paperworks. I saw there are lots of paper in their dedicated office. We engineers are the last one knows.

My supervisor called me to a meeting room, he let me first sign a non-disclosure agreement, or he can't tell me nothing. I had to sign that paper. Then he told me that the company was acquired, and you have choice to either leave or work for Tencent. If you want work for Tencent, you had to go over their interview and only talented people will get offer.

But actually 95% of my colleagues get offer, including me.

[pavel_lishin]

What would have happened if you hadn't signed the NDA?

[Etheryte]

I think in a situation like this the outcome is pretty obvious. There's always people let go in an acquisition and if you don't sign the paperwork it just puts you closer to that group than to the other.