At least the A-part or FAANG, the one that sounds like a river and not a fruit, was pretty surprised by the stock development after 2013/2014. This resulted in them over-paying a lot of the people they recruited in that period. Not that I would complain, so. But they didn't over sell the potential of RSUs during recruiting. My trick was to settle for sufficient base salary and take the RSUs as bonus I never really planned with.

Regardless, they put quite some emphasis on the RSUs being part of the salary as base salaries, while not bad per-se, were mere average for the region. And kind of sub-par considering the size of the company.