Typically, there's a "cliff" after the first year, at which point it switches to quarterly. So you get nothing the first three quarters, but after quarter 4 (y

Typically, there's a "cliff" after the first year, at which point it switches to quarterly. So you get nothing the first three quarters, but after quarter 4 (your first year at the company), 25% of your 4-year grant is immediately vested. Every quarter after that is another 6.25% of your initial grant. I believe the point they were trying to make in the article is that, instead of quarterly grants following the pattern of: [0%, 0%, 0%, 25%, 6.25%, 6.25%, ...] It would instead follow the pattern: [6.25%, 6.25%, 6.25%, 6.25%, 6.25%, ...] ```