Google Employees

Most Google employees think RSUs are a compensation event.

The IRS agrees.

The problem is that the IRS is only describing the tax treatment. It isn't describing what actually happens.

One of the interesting things about Google is that it has probably created more accidental investors than almost any company in history.

At some point the position stopped feeling like compensation. It started feeling like a decision you've been putting off.

For a lot of Google employees, the million-dollar threshold is where that feeling gets loud.

A Googler sent me an article recently about Anthropic’s infrastructure deal with Google Cloud.

The headline was about AI- the part I think actually matters for googlers (and xooglers) holding RSUs  was about something else entirely.

Let me explain:

I’ve heard versions of this question repeatedly from employees holding Google stock.