[fallmonkey]

With Google doing front loading(33/33/22/11) and other companies also shifting away from conventional 25% per year vesting to make first few years more attractive, they gotta catch up to stay competitive. Uber recently did the same of removing cliff.

[readams]

The Google front loading is because you'll get annual refresher grants after the first year (and no "big refresh" after four years), and it makes the total comp more even overall as a result.

[chris11]

I'm not convinced. A salary drop from a cliff isn't great, but cliffs are overall good for employees. A front loaded offer arrives at that even comp by baking future stock growth into the offer. A normal four year equity grant arrives at even comp with no movement on equity. I'd much rather have a normal grant and get a cliff if the company does really well.

[breck]

Do you have a link for Uber dropping the cliff? I didn't know they did that.

[thebean11]

Ehh, aren't the front loaded grants smaller in total? I don't see front loading as a good thing necessarily.

[B-Con]

Source on Google doing front loading?

[Cyph0n]

I joined last month and can confirm this.

[etxm]

I had an offer in December that was 33/33/22/11

[thebean11]

I don't have a link, but seen this on Blind quite a bit