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Re:Amazon more than doubles max base pay to $350k by bagels on Monday February 07, 2022 @01:05PM (#30248598)
Cash gives you the freedom to diversify. If you really wanted to be all in on Amazon, you could use the cash to buy shares. You get RSUs in the latter years to make up for the lack of cash bonus, which you can hold or sell.

I don't see what downside there is?

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Re:Amazon more than doubles max base pay to $350k by munificent on Monday February 07, 2022 @01:57PM (#30249335)
I think you're comparing a cash bonus to a stock bonus, but my comparison was versus a base salary. Given the choice between base salary $X and cash signing bonus $Y or base salary $(X + Y), it seems like the latter is strictly better.
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