No way. I work in a startup (~35 employees) on a small, mission-critical team (~6 members). Even so I consider my contribution to company success or failure to

No way. I work in a startup (~35 employees) on a small, mission-critical team (~6 members). Even so I consider my contribution to company success or failure to be negligible. It boggles my mind that someone at a giant company like FAANG would allow their options to influence their work habits, as if their role in any way impacts the share price. Perhaps if I was in a top leadership position, but for a line-worker, equity is just an investment that happens to be correlated to the performance of your employer (ie bad, because its not diversified).