[esoterica]

People who get paid in RSUs definitely want to see their company succeed. I bet the Amazon employees who have seen their shares go up 500% over the past few years are pretty happy about it.

> People hate "sell outs"

No one other than characters in 80s teen movies goes around unironically complaining about "sell outs".

[closeparen]

Stock goes up because a company does better than the market currently thinks it will, not because it does well. RSU issuing unicorns tend to have an extreme level of hype priced in already. In the best of all possible worlds, the stock might stay flat.

[skybrian]

People are happy when the company succeeds but few people in a large company think they personally have much influence on the stock price.

But you can act as if this were the case and it looks good, so sometimes you might be well-rewarded.

[toast0]

The great part about RSUs is you still get paid if the stock goes down (as long as it still exists). Sure, it's nice if it goes up a lot, but then you have a feeling of being stuck while you wait for those RSUs with nice gains to vest, and then a feeling of getting less when the next round of RSUs is much smaller. (Unless it keeps going up)

[rpcastagna]

I was thinking of Andre 3k at the OutKast reunion tour with the "sell out" thing here.

I'm also a software engineer at Google and I think our stock price has gone up too? I might be wrong.