SE3 at PayPal Bangalore - Software Engineer III PayPal Employee Review

1.0
Mar 23, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Work from home option is available with flexible work timings

Cons

They have payments team in Bangalore and lot of their code is still in C++, they are hiring java developers in senior level and asking them to do support in c++ Lot of production issues every now and and then and every developer is asked to do support for 1 month in every 4 months During support you have to be available 12 hours a day from 10 am to 10 pm and as there are lot of issues/bugs developers busy in looking over issues in their huge c++ code base. Also development work is less and most of the time goes in domain and production support People talk less on technology and more on domain Managers promote people who are gaining more and more domain and involved more on support as Managers are also not technology people. They shifted their Bangalore office to some place with poor road connectivity. After shifting to new office there was not cafeteria for 8 months. Expensive food in cafeteria which started recently and PayPal provide just 1200 per month for food.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Apr 13, 2026
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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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