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I heard FB starts vesting monthly right away these days, which imo is absolutely the way it should be. Google, take notice.

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Google has done this for at least 6 years now, I don't know when they started doing this. Source: Spouse works at Google

No they haven't. There's always been an initial 1 year cliff. This changed in the past year. Source: I joined google less than 6 years ago and had a 1 year cliff.

Hmm, maybe different people have different contracts. In our case, the 1 yr cliff was about the signing bonus, not the vesting.

That's a very unusual deal. Most Google offers were (up until I think August/September 2017) structured as base + target % annual bonus + cash signing bonus with first/second paycheck (which you would need to pay back prorated if you left before a year, but this isn't a cliff) + equity with a 1 year cliff before vesting on a schedule that depended on the exact amount, but varied from annually to monthly.

This was true for new grad offers as well as for most experienced hires. I believe I've heard of different structures for cases where Google was doing essentially an equity buyout, but those were absolutely the exception, not the rule.

Are you sure you are remembering correctly?

Google is also doing this now, fwiw.

Didn’t know. Then, Microsoft, take notice. :-)

Microsoft starts vesting immediately at 20% every 6 months. Amazon, take note.

Are you sure? This means the whole grant vests in 2.5 years. Their vesting period used to be much longer than that.

checking myrewards, some are on the 20% schedule every 6 months (for 2.5 year for full vest) and some are on the 10% schedule (for 5 year for full vest), and some are on a 5% schedule every 3 months (for 5 year for full vest).

Perhaps it would be better to actually have knowledge about the topics on which you're commenting?

All of this is _very_ recent.

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