I applied to, interviewed, and was hired for a position at Nasdaq. Joined a new greenfield team. 2 weeks later an acquisition for our division came through, and my team was suddenly part of a new company. This happened a few years ago, and I was at the company for 2.5 years. Which company should I reference on my resume? Nasdaq is a lot more “prestigious” than the company which acquired the division. I was thinking of replacing the company name with Nasdaq, and in one of the bullet points explain the acquisition. This comes up often on my resume, meaning “what does X company do?”. Then I have to explain the whole Nasdaq connection. I still have the Nasdaq badge as well.. Thanks!
Don't think it's too important since both would be accurate enough/explainable at background check. In that case just choose whichever you think presents better on your resume
Thank you. This was my thought process as well Too bad its taken 4-5 years to come to this relatively-small conclusion, although important as it’s asked about enough times in introductory rounds.
Ahhhh are you part of the trade web acquisition?
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I would put the new company with Nasdaq in parentheses or a "formerly Nasdaq".
Nasdaq shows up on my background report. I joined Nasdaq and the org was later acquired. People sometimes judge ability based off the companies you’ve worked at previously, and yes you can sit there and talk about removing bias, and so on. End of day it matters. Especially so as a candidate in the current market. Email address, profile picture, and so on are all indicators and signals. Granted, no decision will be made on these “details”, but I’d like to remove all downsides possible 😊