What happens to bonuses and resumes when your company gets bought out?
When a company is acquired, employees face immediate uncertainty over whether seasonal bonuses will transfer over and how to format their resume history. Because the original entity may effectively cease to exist, job seekers often do not know whether to list their current employer by its former name or the new acquiring company for reference checks.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Putting the current company name with the old one in parentheses (e.g., Baker Tilly (Formerly Moss Adams))
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“What do you put on your resume if your firm was bought out after you left?”source ↗
“For example if you worked at Moss Adams, which is now Baker Tilly, do you put Baker Tilly?”source ↗
“My HR buddy told me to put Baker Tilly because if an employer wanted to do a reference check then they would need to reach out to Baker Tilly since Moss Adams doesn't exist.”source ↗
“A lot of people in the company are worried and divided in the new company taking over .”source ↗
“I got bonuses in the summer and winter idk about that transition will remain the same .”source ↗
“I’m a pm tech and want to become a full time tech . What will I expect to change in these next months .”source ↗
Where this came up
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