I went to work for a small software company that got acquired by a larger company about 6 months after I started. 6 months later, THAT company got acquired by a PE firm that owned some other software companies and planned to roll them up into one company. It was a shit show. Several of the companies competed in the same space, so there were all sorts of turf wars and pissing matches. Finally the PE board paid a bunch of people to go away and brought in their own management team, including VP of sales. We had a big QBR and he stands up and tells all of us we have a "Get out of jail free card" to clean up SFDC. Get all the trash out of there by next Friday so we can get a legit idea of pipeline. Two weeks later, we're on an all hands call where he tells us all pipeline is shit and every rep needs to add 5 deals to SFDC by the end of the week. Then he quit two weeks after that.