I was interviewing for a position at a startup in the alley of my profession a few years ago where my opening question was when my turn came: where do you see the company in 5 years?
- Sold!
Came the answer without a moment of hesitation. And that was it, the full answer.
Well, they got sold recently, I nod to that. But I did not want to become a salesman, so we wouldn't have get to an agreement even if the position was offered to me.
Getting to be stuck in a long running small organization that has the main purpose of getting big and be sold sounds a terrible life.
Company I work for was sold by the owners mostly because they had huge fights.
We were bought by company that is in similar business but they were not good with tech so we are their „innovation” center instead of them spending years to build innovation from scratch.
We are still separate business unit and continue our thing but they get customers from their network to use our software.
Downside of course being a business unit we have to adjust to some of their stuff and our boss has to explain expenses and deal with all kind of red tape.
It is 3-4 years now since we were bought out and this year company will be 10 years.