The following is my experience with it. Feel free to skip over it. The short version is: Expect a tough time unless you are senior management. Unless you really like your job or are stuck, update your resume and start looking around. I recently left a company that was taken over by a private equity firm at the end in 2014. I stayed for roughly 1.5 years post-acquisition, but decided I had to leave about a year after…
Thanks for the detailed writeup. Anything I can do to excel here? I have spent 4 years with the company and am now in a senior architect role. Wouldn't want this to go to waste. Have never received bad rating, have good relationships with managers and people generally accept me as a doer and go-to guy.
In my last company many good people who got fired were in groups that did great work, but did not have a strong manager. Strong managers advocate for the group and show off what the group does. They make the group visible in the company and bring interesting work to the group.
If you feel like you are just an ant in a group that nobody knows about, it's easy for somebody else (probably somebody who have never even heard about) to draw a line through your name in an excel sheet defining who to keep and who to cut.