>>Because they are a well known company, and OP assumed they could pay competitively? There is no way IBM would pay $200K to a fresher graduating out of colleg

>>Because they are a well known company, and OP assumed they could pay competitively? There is no way IBM would pay $200K to a fresher graduating out of college. I can't imagine any company doing that. Including Amazon. In fact if you remove Ad revenue driven companies, I guess apart from Apple, nobody would pay that much.