Internal Amazon documents shed light on how company pressures out office workers

Re:Internal Amazon documents shed light on how company press... by chris11 on Monday June 21, 2021 @07:07PM (#27585714)

> Smarter folks have just gone for the one or two year cliffs

Four year cliffs are much better for employees. Shorter cliffs will cost people a lot of money if the valuation shoots up.

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Re:Internal Amazon documents shed light on how company press... by codezero on Monday June 21, 2021 @11:50PM (#27587789)

I don’t understand. In fast moving small companies (<150) employees this sounds absurd. Are you talking about different companies?

Can you maybe give me an example, or something concrete to root your statement in?

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Re:Internal Amazon documents shed light on how company press... by chris11 on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @01:24AM (#27588271)

I misspoke and used cliff as the length of the grant instead of when it started vesting. Short cliffs are good, some companies are starting to vest equity grants immediately. I haven't heard of a two year cliff.

Some companies are also doing one year grants instead of four year grants, like Stripe. That's costing employees a lot of money.

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Re:Internal Amazon documents shed light on how company press... by codezero on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @10:12PM (#27600004)

Got it, we are very much on the same page.

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