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The vesting cliff your joiners hit in year five

Four year equal vesting with refreshes on top looks generous until year five, when it drops off a cliff.

Colette Leung is Head of Total Rewards at Chainlink Labs, and she built a simulator to show what a new joiner actually experiences rather than what the grant letter says.

She models the alternatives live, including the front loaded schedules she thinks Robinhood and others have explored, against a market competitive line.

What we get into

The first thing she ever built with AI, which was a working manual of her manager. Why she thinks the development work has shrunk from about 70% of a…

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