[piercebot]

Typically, there's a "cliff" after the first year, at which point it switches to quarterly.

So you get nothing the first three quarters, but after quarter 4 (your first year at the company), 25% of your 4-year grant is immediately vested. Every quarter after that is another 6.25% of your initial grant.

I believe the point they were trying to make in the article is that, instead of quarterly grants following the pattern of:

    [0%, 0%, 0%, 25%, 6.25%, 6.25%, ...]

It would instead follow the pattern:

    [6.25%, 6.25%, 6.25%, 6.25%, 6.25%, ...]

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