Competing Offer from Amazon and Unicorn. Please help!
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Thanks to this awesome community for helping me land these offers. Im really conflicted by which one I should choose. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Note: My offer expires on Tuesday, Febuary 2nd 2021.

Compensation

Amazon:
Base: 116k
Stock: 86k over 4 years with 1 year cliff
Sign on: 27k with 23k 1 year anniversary
Location: Seattle

Series E Unicorn ($2B evaluation):
Base: 140k
Stock: 150k over 4 years with 1 year cliff
Location: New York

Everything Else

Amazon:
Pros: Brand, experince big organization engineering culture, lots of brilliant people to learn from
Cons: Don't know what team I will be on (but hopefully Seattle is full of good ones?), Poor Work-Life-Balance, Lower Comp, I do not live in Seattle

Unicorn:
Pros: Fast paced engineering culture, my team seems nice and efficent, I already live in this location, company is growing quickly
Cons: Domain is very finance heavy, team build accounting software.

Summary:
I feel like choosing Amazon would help my career in the long run, but I'm worried I wouldn't like it there becuase of the rumors of terrible WLB. Would I be a fool to let the opportunity slide by (I have applied to Amazon for 4 years and got it for the first time this year)?

Thanks in advance to all those willing to provide guidence to a conflicted new graduate.

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