Staying at Amazon L5 or move to Meta E4

Hi all,

6 YOE SDE2, 5 at Amazon, 1 at Robinhood (boomeranged). Location Seattle.

I'm in offer negotiation currently with Meta for E4 infra sde role. My Amazon initial offer was

• 180k base, 250k signon, 250k stock
• Came out to 340/320/280/280, with stock growth in mind target was 340 over all years.
• I'm in my 3rd year at Amazon for this offer. Current base is 189k.

Meta original offer was

• 165k base, 330k stock, 15% bonus
• I explained my current amazon comp as 340k, and my recruiter hinted I needed to provide proof so I included my initial offer letter
• Meta came back with 165k base, 350k stock, 15% bonus, 35k sign on
• I included a Palantir offer from last year (190k base, 400k stock, 20k clearance bonus) and my original Robinhood offer (180k, 330k stock, 50k sign on, 10% bonus)
• They were still not willing to go up. I pushed one more time and they said the best they can do is 173k base. Their reasoning is with the 15% bonus, the base will be higher (I pushed back that it's not the same)

The above is a slight rant. Assuming Meta doesn't budge to give more, I'm curious if it's still worth moving from a reaching senior perspective and a total comp long term perspective.

At amazon, it feels impossible to reach senior. At meta, I would assume I can reach senior faster (1-2 years).

Is it worth moving for a potential pay cut in the short term? I also know Meta refreshers are a lot better than Amazon so I think it could be worth. Can I match with another meta team, would that help? The meta team is AI and Wearables.

Also curious from a pressure perspective how it is. I've been on 4 teams at Amazon (3 AWS teams) and always felt it was fine / never worried about performance. I hear its rough at meta, but I assume if I've always been a high performer at amazon/robinhood I should be fine?