Negotiating Your Offer

Almost everything written about negotiating a technology offer assumes stock. Ask for more RSUs, model the vesting cliff, argue about the grant price, weigh a refresher against a signing bonus. None of that applies here, and reading generic advice will waste the one conversation you get.

This is not automatically worse. A four-year grant is a bet on a share price you cannot influence, and plenty of engineers have watched a headline number halve. In exchange you get cash. All of it legible, all of it payable regardless of what any market does. It is also, for the same reason, a narrower negotiation with fewer places to hide value.