Advice for youngsters

While pay/employer brand are generally important parameters for making the decision to decide your next org, please also consider the following:

i) is the company absolutely clear about which team you would be working in: I have seen a lot of people hired recently who keep working on random things even upto their first 6 months

ii) Is the team in which you would be working important for the company: Being a dev in the ordering team is very different from being a dev working on an internal tool that maybe 50 people in the organisation use

iii) Does the company have a sound business model ( make money)

These are additional parameters you should always keep in mind. Always have a threshold for each parameter. And if a company/offer is scoring low in any of these parameters it shall be making it up on the rest.