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by jnaina 30 days ago
moral clarity usually sharpens the moment the last RSU hits the brokerage account
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Sometimes.

Sometimes not.

I left with more than 4 million in RSU's left.

Pretty much any Googler who leaves will be leaving lots of money on the table.

This is because they are usually 3/4 year grants, so it's pretty much impossible to leave without lots of unvested RSU.

There are some 1 year grants, but those are much more uncommon (~1%)

Your total comp was ~1.2 mil/year?
About 3x that, actually.

Timing wise, I happened to leave after my old grants expired and before my new grants would be in my account. I was a VP of engineering when i left. Google pays VP's quite well.

If there's a reason you want more exact numbers, poke me over email.

Makes sense. Thanks!
You should probably have email in your bio if you share CTAs based on it
same I left with approx that amount and when stock was still fairly low compared to today, so left life changing money. no ragrets lol.
This must have been a long time ago? Because that's leaving over a billion dollars "on the table" at the current price.
"in RSUs", I think that meant $4M, not 4M shares.
Alphabet dropped “don’t be evil” from its moto in 2015. This guy went in knowing how the sausage was being made.
they did not. it’s still right there in the code of conduct

https://abc.xyz/investor/board-and-governance/google-code-of...

scroll to the bottom

> scroll to the bottom

that illustrates the point nicely...

"But the motto was on display..."

"Yes, it was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."

That is not corporate motto.
the motto was always a part of the code of conduct (it was the preface), it just moved from google's to alphabet's when it became a subsidiary.
Motto's, slogans, mission statements...

All of these things are 100% bullshit and always have been. It's tragic that Google actually had people believing them when they championed "don't be evil".

The slogan originated in Eng, and was honest at the time, and for many years after.

It obviously got promoted by marketing for external consumption as well.

Maybe they should not have joined the company in the first place if they had "morals" or "principles". Yet they still joined in 2017 even after knowing that slogan was removed anyway.

Company mottos, principles, slogans and values are all fake fronts to lure in these sort of people alongside the free food with the carrots on those sticks.

Once that all runs out or the company goes south and stops being a daycare, then they start doing silly virtue signalling posts like this.

Now you are seeing who was there for the 'good vibes', free food, rest n' vest and who was there to keep the company alive.

...And finally we know that this is a love letter to get themselves hired at Anthropic. I think you might need more than that honestly.

Google provides annual RSU refreshes. There is no "last RSU".

This announcement is also 9 years after they started, and Google has a 4 year vesting schedule, so it's not even possible that this coming after the initial grant vests.

This is a completely unfair and unsubstantiated dismissal of the article.

This is incredibly annoying to see in the real world. People who pontificate values on LinkedIn but work for a company they disagree with, only to see them stay until they hit 4 years and leave. No idea how they think they have any moral high ground.
“Severance”, On Apple TV+ provides one answer
Exactly.

<rant> I am so tired of reading these stupid "why I am leaving my job after making millions". One thing I can say about myself: I work for money. That's it. Lots of things the companies that I work for (normally 25,000+ employees) do immoral and unethical things. Still, I stay, earn money, and I don't write stupid fucking self-righteous blog posts after I leave. At this point, blog posts like this look like an "own goal". </rant>

Also his complaints about morale compass failure are largely activism goals. Hard to make money when you waste it.

I tell employers I’m clearly a mercenary and I am only here for the money. I do great work, but I’ve been compensated well.

> I am so tired of reading these stupid "why I am"

Don't read them. The rest of us may actually gain from another perspective, different from corporate marketing.

yep, and happy to make everyone around them feel guilty when they got theirs. i strongly dislike people who do this performative crap while unfortunately believing in their right to say it.
Post-deposit clarity
>*"You cannot explain something to somebody whose livelihood depends upon [others] not understanding..."

Something. $omething. something. $teinbeck?

Upton Sinclair
Yes, that is correct:

>>"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." –Upton Sinclair