When considering day to day/on the job fulfillment vs TC and whether or not you actually give a shit about what you're coding, would you take a higher TC for some candy crush tier app you have zero passion for, or a paycut to use a tech stack you actually care about? Asking for a friend who used to work at Zillow.
My passion isn't tech, it's retiring as early as possible with the highest quality of life possible.
Bruh you’re at Amazon do you realize the irony?
Amazon has soul if you're doing AWS/EKS