IMO these recruiters are a big waste of time.
If you send an unsolicited recruitment email you haven't earned a response.
Of course they always hide who's they're recruiting for (except for one time with a FB recruiter who got passive aggressive with my not responding - this is after I'd responded to multiple prior recruiters that I would literally never work there - where honestly I feel I should have tried to find a contact at FB to forward it to.
[edit: I also realize the "up to X" is bullshit, and should reply asking what the minimum is]
For example on Feb 4, 2019 Amazon was trading at 1623. By Feb 4, 2022 stock is trading at 3,112. This multiplies the value of any TC in years 3 and 4 by a significant sum (given the 5/15/40/40 vest) due to the near doubling of stock value over 3 years.
There are certainly some eye-popping compensation packages out there these days.
Basic rule of thumb: recruiting at the $1M level requires a certain finesse and sophistication to engage high caliber prospective talent.
Coming at me cold with a $1M tease, just sounds bogus.
Suuure, "up to" one million, but over what time period? Technically $100k/year for 10 years is one million.
Well, it's at the high end of the range, anyway.
By the way, I define high as being in the top 90%.
In other news, water is wet so long as bears shit in the woods.