After working at Google, I’ll never let myself love a job again

Re:After working at Google, I’ll never let myself love a job... by dekhn on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @06:36PM (#26732387)

My employer (Google) has been giving me add-on grants for as long as I've worked there (over 11 years). The number of pre-vest shares have increased over time (they give me larger add-ons). The biggest hit I took was leaving to work for a startup for a year and then returning, because that reset everything. I walked away from some absurd amount of pre-vested shares.

I think my experience is fairly typical for senior/staff level employees with a long tenure, based on what I've heard from friends, coworkers, and HN comments.

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Re:After working at Google, I’ll never let myself love a job... by wcarss on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @08:12PM (#26733335)

Thanks; I appreciate a lot that you qualified what you said, and gave a justification for why your perspective is broadly true, rather than just assert a negative as a universal.

I was mistaken. I didn't know that FAANGs (and likely similar) mostly do comp in this specific way that is different from other comp structures I've interacted with or known of, even despite interning at Google myself, and having friends work there and at others similar, whom I've discussed comp with at length.

Somehow this point about stock grant structure has just never come up, and I've personally experienced the opposite, so I felt the strength of the assertion was unwarranted -- but anyway, I'm glad to learn it!

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Re:After working at Google, I’ll never let myself love a job... by dekhn on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @08:30PM (#26733512)

The best way to think of it is, FAAMG are money guns and your job is to build bullet-proof buckets.

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