When you understand how RSUs work and what you’re signing up for there’s nothing inherently wrong with rewarding someone for years of service.
However, their structure / terminology is inherently misleading and manipulative.
A company could just give you stock at each performance review. It doesn’t need to give you magic shares that need to be incubated before they hatch, it could just give you the actual shares they want to pay you at each point.
They don’t because that would expose that they’re actually giving you nothing in the first several years, and they want you to think you own part of the company when you don’t.
Again, when you understand what they’re actually offering then you go in eyes wide open, but they are intentionally trying to deceive people into thinking they’re getting a reward earlier than they actually are.
When you understand how RSUs work and what you’re signing up for there’s nothing inherently wrong with rewarding someone for years of service.
However, their structure / terminology is inherently misleading and manipulative.
A company could just give you stock at each performance review. It doesn’t need to give you magic shares that need to be incubated before they hatch, it could just give you the actual shares they want to pay you at each point.
They don’t because that would expose that they’re actually giving you nothing in the first several years, and they want you to think you own part of the company when you don’t.
Again, when you understand what they’re actually offering then you go in eyes wide open, but they are intentionally trying to deceive people into thinking they’re getting a reward earlier than they actually are.