> The cliff is irrelevant, if you leave before you fully vest your pay rate does not actually match what you claim. This doesn't make sense as well. You don't

> The cliff is irrelevant, if you leave before you fully vest your pay rate does not actually match what you claim. This doesn't make sense as well. You don't need to work at Google for a year to get the first year's equity. So there is no one year cliff. The frequency of how often you vest is also monthly. Specially at the L6+ levels. So you will lose at most of one month's equity (i.e. 1/48th of the grant) if you are bad at planning your last day. So to put actual numbers again, let's say your offer is 240k cash + 240k RSUs every year. So you vest 240k/12 = 20k in RSUs every month on say 20th of the month. If you leave on the 19th of your 12 month of the employment (i.e. before finishing one year), you don't lose on 240k of RSUs but just 20k of RSUs. So you will earn 220k of cash + 229k of RSUs before you leave.