If you part of an acquisition and they make promises of a new position and the possibility of moving up the "corporate ladder"; do not believe them. You will suffer through a mess of a transition period just to find out there are no new positions available for you and you are ineligible for any difference in pay because you are considered a "new employee" regardless of how long you worked for your previous company prior to the acquisition. You are basically starting all over again. Front office positions max out at very low pay. They claim they do yearly raises in January but it's 3% (an inflation raise) and everyone gets one. You have to go through a review process to get any other kind of raise, but then they say they are "restructuring" and can't afford to give anyone a raise.
