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Five year vesting? Is this common? I've always used four -- the only company I've heard of who uses five is Microsoft.

It's graded vesting, I've always seen it at 5 years (20%/year). It seems they do 20% after the first year then 1/48th afterward monthly (which is nice).

Legally they can do up to 6 years.

I don't think the graded vesting was the surprising thing to the parent comment, it's that it's five years instead of four.

All the tech companies I've seen use 1 year cliff/4 year total vesting. Ie, 25% after the first year, 1/36th of the remainder monthly.

Yes, 4 years is the standard.

There's weird stuff out there. Amazon apparently does 4 year, but 5%, 15%, 40%, 40%.

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