NOT a great place to work - Anonymous employee PayPal Employee Review

1.0
May 3, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Colleagues - Canteen was ok - Gym

Cons

- PayPal wants to appear like the best place to work but the management doesn't care about the employees - Every time you want to make a suggestion or if you have a concern they say they will consider etc. but they never come back to you - Even in the public forum, Facebook or Glassdoor "PayPal" says "we value feedback, we will consider, we are sorry to hear about...etc." Everyone knows that these sentences are fake and that they are written on the first page of every marketing book - At least once a year they ask the employees to fill out a survey but in the end they don't care about the outcome, and it appears that they don't share the correct results - Very low payment for the work load they are expecting - The work procedures in some departments change every day in a way that no one really knows what their scope of support is - If a customer complains about PayPal its the employees fault because they weren't able to make the customer happy in the end - You are not allowed to talk to your colleagues during the day. As soon as you want to say a word or if you want to ask a question a senior advisor asks you what you are doing (thats why its always quiet in the back office) - The targets in some departments, especially in the front office, are almost not achievable - and as soon as they notice that too many advisors reach the targets they set it higher - They offer the bonus but this amount is very low, and they take every chance for not paying it. In some occasions the advisor was too many times sick, the advisor handled one out of 100 calls wrong or just because "they can't give everyone a bonus". Yes, they need to select people who can not get the bonus. - The manager tells you every week that you need to improve in something even though you reach all targets by 200 Percent- If all targets are met you need to work on your personality (!) - You don't have many career opportunities because a lot of good jobs were offered to relatives or friends of managers - The shifts are not fair. Some advisors had to work weekend shifts for years (!!) while others only had the shifts during the week. However PayPal advertises with a change every 6 months which is clearly a lie. - I could write so much more but to put it all in a nutshell in the end PayPal wants to create robots but they advertise with a great place to work etc. I would not recommend anyone to work here as I know a lot of people who suffer from depression etc.

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Cons

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Pros

PayPal has a lot of potential. It has two very strong brands in PayPal and Venmo with significant awareness and user bases that other companies envy. There are pockets of teams that are really pushing the envelop to reimagine what PayPal and Venmo could be—especially the Venmo team—and to move with speed given the company must stay focused and not waste time with Apple Pay, Shop Pay, and so many other competitors nipping at PayPal's heels and aggressively taking market share.

Cons

While some teams are pushing to self-disrupt and are moving fast, too many teams—and I'd argue the majority of the company–are living off of PayPal's laurels from the late 2010s through the pandemic. The culture and mindset have to change for the company to remain competitive. Otherwise, they are the Titanic and they're sinking slowly. The former CEO who only last 2 years tried diversifying the company's revenue, planning for the future. But the board and its former chairman (now new CEO) felt he wasn't moving fast enough to stabilize and marketshare. Instead, the board hired the former chairman who made computers and printers at HP—another sinking ship—to lead the oldest fintech company. The loss of confidence in the leadership team and the strategy are only accelerating.

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