The compensation blew my mind when I worked there. At the end of my first year I got "exceeds" and a large comp bump (almost all of it from RSUs). Those RSUs

The compensation blew my mind when I worked there. At the end of my first year I got "exceeds" and a large comp bump (almost all of it from RSUs). Those RSUs would start vesting one year after this "exceeds" conversation took place--April 1st (start of Q1 a year later). So I'd get a (small) vest ~13 months later. Considering the average tenure (typically 18 months from what I heard from a higher-up in my org), the deck is stacked against actually making the big comp numbers. You work very hard to make more if you can survive another year after you worked hard. Odds are good you won't.