Wendy Nather on Nostr: Serious question: when writing a bio, when should you include an updated company name ...
Serious question: when writing a bio, when should you include an updated company name even if you worked only for the previous company?
For example: I list that I worked for Swiss Bank Corporation and add “(now UBS)” because the former merged with the latter back when I was leaving in 2000. I don’t feel like I worked for UBS itself, but SBC hasn’t existed for decades.
Another company I worked for, 451 Research, was acquired by S&P Global after I left, and that former name is fading fast.
Does it matter if the company name is sufficiently old that people reading my bio may not remember it? Are the parens too annoying and/or pedantic?
I guess everyone has this problem after a long enough career, and enough M&A happens in the industry.
For example: I list that I worked for Swiss Bank Corporation and add “(now UBS)” because the former merged with the latter back when I was leaving in 2000. I don’t feel like I worked for UBS itself, but SBC hasn’t existed for decades.
Another company I worked for, 451 Research, was acquired by S&P Global after I left, and that former name is fading fast.
Does it matter if the company name is sufficiently old that people reading my bio may not remember it? Are the parens too annoying and/or pedantic?
I guess everyone has this problem after a long enough career, and enough M&A happens in the industry.