[jsolson]

Anecdotally, Amazon's pay scale is only competitive with other companies in the area if you ignore on-call and only look at starting salary/bonus (including stock compensation).

[CodeMage]

Can you elaborate on that a little bit?

[azth]

Not the OP. Basically, they expect you to work overtime (go on call) for free. If you take that into account, their offerings are nothing special.

[jsolson]

What azth said.

I also felt that future compensation was more anchored to your starting compensation than at other companies.