[adamzerner]

This strikes me as overly cynical. A pendulum swung too far. Yes, someone who takes "we don't want to change a thing" at face value is probably overconfident. OTOH, someone who says that the old culture "ceases to exist" is underconfident, I would wager. Reality is somewhere in the middle.

[dmak]

Have you been apart of an acquisition before? it's pretty damn accurate and not cynical at all.

[watwut]

It is not cynical. It is just how organizations and social groups work. It takes few months, but culture changes. People start to behave differently.

And if you insist on not changing, you are better off to change the job entirely.