I'm not sure why you'd say that. TripAdvisor, my first FT gig, offered new hires $85K in Boston in 2010, plus a pretty significant stock package. Today, in 2016 (or even last year), $90K in a similar CoL, similar demand market is nothing to write home about.

Unlikely. New grads get 100k easy, at any company in the Bay Area, NYC, or Seattle. Thats just the market rate.

I can confirm that it sounds reasonable. My offer was over 100k at amazon a few years ago as a new college grad (though I declined). Glassdoor seems to confirm that this is the norm nowadays.

90k$ is low, I have seen several get 140k$ (Base + Signing bonus) for SDE roles out of college.