Highly political environment, weak management, leaders - Software Engineer PayPal Employee Review

2.0
Oct 3, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

work life balance, decent salary, free transportation, free meal pass

Cons

- extremely political environment, - weak middle management and leaders, - filled with old timers or AWFs (contract employees) or converted AWFs who are not ready to change or adapt any new technology, - Re-orgs every 6-9 months create a lot of churn, - lot of new ideas and projects are taken, left in middle and never launched.

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