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Need talented staff? Just buy the entire company

when a larger company bought the one I was with, was that there were interviews for all, but they said 'don't bother with a resume' and the interviewers seemed to be digging around conversationally for various 'interesting' engineering and technical accomplishments rather than humdrum projects and corporate-style achievement of 'management by objectives' targets. There was a design ongoing at the time. A few months later, when the design had been completed and set in stone, the entire design team was simply dismissed. The field application engineers and marketing were kept.

The outfit I work for has been bought up that way twice. In both cases the only layoffs were on the business side of things. Engineering and production didn't lose anything.

...if it's in a competitive industry and the purchasing company is poorly run; The talent they are trying to by is the first to jump ship.