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I doubt they get options, RSUs most likely.

• ink_13 4y ago
  This is pedantically correct, but in practical terms, if you got RSUs at any price in the last five years, they're still worth less than you were offered.
  • deadmutex 4y ago
    There is a huge difference between stock price being 20% lower than RSU grant price vs. 20% below option strike price. With options. If options are way out of the money, then they're worth a lot less than the RSUs.
  • sangnoir 4y ago
    Far from being pedantic: having underwater on options is very different from having RSUs worth less than they were in the past. If an individual were to liquidate one of each; the underwater option would have negative monetary value, whereas the RSUs will always have a positive value. Never mind the convoluted tax implications of exercising options that are nominally not underwater, but whose stock has a lower value that at the time of granting.