- Acquihired employees end up having zero passion or motivation to work on tech from their new masters and end up doing a crappy job and implementation before their retention period ends and they bail out.
- Mish-mash of additional crap code increases tech debt to a point that alienates top engineers causing them to leave for greener pastures. The second-tier engineers end up taking up the reigns hack band-aid further destroying the codebase. Cycle of crap code and good engineers leaving continues until the company is left with lowest-tier engineers who couldn't get a job elsewhere or desperate H1-B visa holders who hold up the fort until a competitor comes to eat their lunch with a better, more performant product.
- Acquihired employees end up having zero passion or motivation to work on tech from their new masters and end up doing a crappy job and implementation before their retention period ends and they bail out.
- Mish-mash of additional crap code increases tech debt to a point that alienates top engineers causing them to leave for greener pastures. The second-tier engineers end up taking up the reigns hack band-aid further destroying the codebase. Cycle of crap code and good engineers leaving continues until the company is left with lowest-tier engineers who couldn't get a job elsewhere or desperate H1-B visa holders who hold up the fort until a competitor comes to eat their lunch with a better, more performant product.