You may never get proper positive recognition for your work.
You won't get relevant feedback for your actions. Everything is deemed confidential that noone is supposed to utter a word on who said what about you in any of the appraisal meetings.
If you work in Chennai, your promotions almost always never happens. This is a personal experience.
If you work in Chennai, your performance is compared with folks in San Jose. Good in theory but bad in practice since the whole the senior management sitting in San Jose mostly decides all the appraisals. Don't expect a lot of participation from Chennai in senior management.
The management in Chennai has very little authority when it comes to your career options or survival in the company. Or perhaps, they have no stakes in the matter (there is no transparency at work).
There are so many managers within the PayPal organization, that don't represent a great model of management.
eBay behaviours are mere statements and i have not seen them followed in spirit by most managers in my hierarchy.
There are so many senior folks that travel frequently from San Jose to Chennai. The motivator for young engineers is onsite travel which gets affected because of those travels.
In PayPal, you decide the appraisal rating and then write the review for an employee based on the rating arrived at. Really weird. The funny thing is that the management insists on finishing the reviews from the lower level folks but never get it done for themselves. Not a nice model when it is not practised at every level.
Some managers in San Jose just don't have the maturity to deal with people under them. They are just not experienced to be global managers. There have been a variety of contextual situations in support of this.
If you work in Chennai, expect to be given instructions from San Jose on what needs to be done.
