[Twirrim]

> Vesting is every 4 months and risk is minimal.

That's not the way Amazon vests your stock, unless things have drastically changed recently. They vest in single lump sums for the year, and they have a slowly ramping up vesting schedule.

First year, nothing (but they give you straight money bonus) Second year, barely anything, but they give you some cash to "offset". Third year, good bunch of the stock, but still less than half. Fourth year, all the rest of the stock vests.

Within each year you should get some stock offering, on the same ramping up basis so the idea is after the fourth year, you have consistent RSUs vesting, and they'll probably be split over the year based on whenever Amazon gave you the stock offering.

[what_ever]

The sign up bonus over the first two years is pro-rated and paid every month and it makes up for the lack of stock vesting during that time.