Good until management changed - Senior Software Engineer Venmo Employee Review

2.0
Jan 17, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

People - engineers are incredibly smart and talented. Everyone across US based timezone is super supportive and respond quickly when you have questions on their systems.

Cons

It was good up until upper leadership changed. It feels like basically Paypal has no idea what to do with Venmo. Second, there is a ton of tech debt and no interest to improving the systems,

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Cons

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Pros

People care about the product immensely. Also, WFH 100% is really great as an option.

Cons

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