• The post-acquisition phase brought instability. Strategic decisions were influenced by a new leadership group that didn’t understand the core business or culture.
• Valuable engineers and contributors were let go, leading to major talent drain and demoralization across teams.
• A short-term vision overrode long-term growth, with politics often taking precedence over performance.
• Many of those who influenced these decisions are no longer with the company, but the damage they caused remains.
• Morale, clarity of direction, and engineering ownership have all declined significantly.