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I'm about to be offered equity by my employer. What should I expect?
The main thing is the percentage of the company represented by the shares. Number of shares is meaningless without total shares. If you compute percentage and total company value you can estimate the value of the grant. Or perhaps more useful for a startup is to multiple the percentage by some plausible "exit" value, such as how much the company might sell for or IPO for. Many grants expire when or soon after you leave the company if you don't "cash out" vested shares when you leave, this is standard, but do remember it when you leave.  The other major thing is vesting. In the tech industry, vesting 1/4 after a year and then the rest quarterly over 3 more years is most common.