If you're big in the google ecosystem it makes sense:
- gemini-cli can have remote a2a agents connected to it. (See https://github.com/tanaikech/gemini-cli-gas-a2a-subagents and the medium article linked in that repo description.) Haven't tried it but I tried the local use case below.
- can expose a custom Google ADK "agent" via one-liner as a2a, which you can connect to the gemini-cli the same way.
Let's say you're applying for a position where usual FAANG TC is 300k.
Then Amazon recruiter wants to "match" that, so 300 * 4=1200k over 4 years.
Base pay is maxed at 160 (until today's announcement), so
1200k-(160 * 4) = 560k to come up with with stocks and cash bonus.
Let's say Amazon 30 day moving average share price during negotiation is $1200 a share
So now recruiter must make math such that:
- TC stays relatively flat. On year 3 & 4 you get 40% of award, but only 5% year 1 and 15% year. (so a cash bonus to offset year 1 is ~35% of grant amount, and cash bonus offset year 2 is ~25% of grant amount)
- TC assuming 15% growth of stock
So, they'll offer you 220 units:
Year 1:
with only 5% * 220 * 1200=$13k from RSU, you need (300-160-13)=127k cash bonus , now your TC year 1 is 300k.
Year 2:
15% * 220 * 1200 * 1.15=46k from RSU
So cash bonus of 94k.
So all the math here is done using fictional share price that grew 1.15^n for each year. But in concrete, your offer says 220 units. If Amazon grew much more than 15% a year, on year 3 you're still making 40% * 220 units, no matter what the share price is.
But the final offer is:
160k / year base, 220 units over 4 year with 5%/15%/40%/40% vesting, and 127k cash bonus year 1 + 94k cash bonus year 2.
Amazon is one of rare FAANG where the RSU offer is given in share count in offer itself, not in $.
> but leaves you the maximum amount of (mental|emotional|psychological|spiritual|whatever) energy
That's probably not the case. It looks counterintuitive but being bored and feeling unmotivated at work can leave you at the end of the day with much less energy than an very intensive but interesting work.
Your 2nd paragraph makes sense for a person like you, but I'd guess that the OP is one of those different people, for who self-satisfaction at work is a key thing.
So faster hiring east side. Faster firing west side.
It's a soft relocation