Google Life Sciences Exodus. Google employees don't get stock options anymore, but "Google Stock Units": So although the stock price rising makes everybody happier, there is no such problem of out of the money stocks.

For the rest of the world, we just call them Reserved Stock Units. The OPs point still stands regardless; unless for whatever reason you think you'll get 1 a windfall of stock grants that are 2 calculate from some actual monetary amount divided by the current stock price, you want the value of your stock to go up.

Do you mean restricted stock unit? What's the difference between it, and stock you buy from a broker on the market?

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You receive the option to puchase stock with vesting. This is in contrast to actually purchasing a stock on the market. With the smaller Google-specific "well but" limit that insider trading rules restrict employees from trading in the company stock except for narrow trading windows after the company's quarterly reports.

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You can sell during blackout periods if you file a 10b plan a few months year? It's just stock on a vesting schedule. This mitigates the problem somewhat by making it not binary but not entirely. Hacker News new comments show ask jobs submit.

Google Life Sciences Exodus Google employees don't get stock options anymore, but "Google Stock Units":