Originally Posted by adriangohjw

Not too sure about the job hop portion cos every company has their own vesting schedule. For examples, most tech companies do 4 years with 1 year cliff, so you might not even get any ESOP/RSU if you leave in 9 months

"dirty way to keep employees" -> but same can be said about AWS and annual/performance bonus mah haha as long as both parties willing, why not?

I think its not really a scam but more of a risk/uncertainty thing. For example, if you join SEA at their IPO days, your stocks value increase by 30x (i think?) but if you join 3 months ago, it would drop by 50%