PayPal reviews

3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(9,609 total reviews)
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Enrique Lores

50% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

PayPal has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 9,609 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The PayPal employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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10K reviews
1.0
Jun 6, 2022

This company is bad.

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Pros

Company is diverse because the majority of brown people are on the very bottom of the org chart.

Cons

I was overworked, paid less than my male counterpart with the exact same title, was told “raises are coming up” to appease me for all of the work I put in during the pandemic by myself only to find out that that was one of the many fairy tales told to keep us minions less hopeless so management wouldn’t look as bad as they are. Management is bad. My experience was damn near comic book level villainous. Sexism and racism run rampant. I was the diversity part of the boys club where they downplayed my talents, and gaslit me into believing I wasn’t doing as well as my peers. We were pit against each other so we’d always be clamoring for approval. Clamoring for approval from those who were unqualified but had friends a nice positions. This was an abusive relationship I need to apologize to myself for being in so long. Very sad to learn of all of the layoffs and censoring long time employees PayPal is doing.

2.0
Sep 12, 2021

The Marie Antionette Moment

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Pros

I realized the extent of my burnout when there was an email hyping third quarter, lots to launch, we’re in a marathon but start sprinting. 4 weeks later, another email came about management's refreshing 2-week vacations, the realization of how important it was to recharge and how good it was to step away for time with their families, yet it's still 3rd quarter, so keep sprinting. For the majority who can’t take time off due to an overload of varying production deadlines and escalations and who start their workday earlier and end them later just to keep up, this came across as exceptionally tone deaf. Making it worse was an all hands discussing how to ensure a better work life balance—here, read some slide decks. What finally convinced me to write this review was when a dev colleague told me after he’d been diagnosed with a serious illness, his manager asked if he could take on an additional product launch to the ones he's currently handling. In short, it’s your own damn fault if you can’t manage self-care, regardless of the work load. Pros: • Good health benefits • 401k match • ESPP program • RSUs • Commuting reimbursements • Roth 401k • Track free vacation - no need to put in a request for time off weeks in advance

Cons

Cons: • 2020 Covid moonshot attitude focus, aka “all hands on deck/sprint to you drop, people!”, is now the workstyle norm • Reports overload. Multiple, often duplicate reports must be done each week. Even if there was no movement, something must get added (punctuation change, word deletion) otherwise it’s a mark against you. • Rampant Yes Man culture in meetings where people race to add their “wow, fantastic insight!” comments in the meeting chat just to get noticed for promotion • Quarterly team re-orgs that are just constant churn / chaos • Layoffs in January/early Feb (avoids bonus payout) • Promotions are difficult to achieve. The process is pretty much where the manager who shouts the loudest in the ranking meeting, gets the promotions • Fewer RSU awards • Track free vacation almost impossible to use due to the workload. Most people end up only taking 2 weeks at the end of the year

2.0
Jun 19, 2019

Worst company of my career

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Being a developer I do not see any reason to work with this company ( Bangalore location, Risk domain ). Bangalore Risk is not a team, it is a political platform which will make you perfect politician. Like Big Boss, game starts the day you join this team. Reason of this I have analysed so far is (1) very less technical work which has worth in Industry (2) Psycho managers ( this is closed group who play to save themselves at any cost). Once you join this team you will realise IIM should stop Executive course for sending incompetent managers to Industry. ** if you are a recruiter please double check IIM Executive courses profiles. Most of managers ( even of some top management ) are fake. They hardly care about PayPal. All they want to see their RSU grow. If you really care about your career please don't join Risk Bangalore else like me you will certainly repent one day.

Cons

politics, old technologies, fake managers. PayPal is in Industry till next max 5 years. Because of change in Payment industry survival of this company wouldn't be easy.

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