DoorDash removing 1-year cliff for equity grants

Re:DoorDash removing 1-year cliff for equity grants by throwaway09223 on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @09:20PM (#27767564)

Sure, but if you're depending on the cliff for retention you're working against your own interests: Employees will leave the 53rd week, just after you've spent all that effort training them within your environment.

Long term retention hinges on long term adequate compensation and long term quality environments. There's no need for cliffs.

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Re:DoorDash removing 1-year cliff for equity grants by Cerium on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @11:03PM (#27768077)

Sure, there is no need for a cliff, but if you are attracting the right talent with adequate compensation (that keeps up with market changes!) the cliff does not matter.

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Re:DoorDash removing 1-year cliff for equity grants by kerng on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @11:34PM (#27768222)

How can you attract the right talent when competing with companies, like Google, Amazon (with their cash bonus payment model to compensate their weird back weighted RSUs) or Netflix being able to hand out offers without any of these risks?

An engineer with family is unlikely to take such a risk and rather join Google or even Amazon where compensation is guaranteed.

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