PayPal reviews

3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(9,613 total reviews)
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49% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

PayPal has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 9,613 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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2.0
Jul 27, 2010

High turnover, Subpar codebase

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Paypal has a system that provides good knowledge transfer through training and tech talks. Sabbatical is earned after several years service.

Cons

There is an extremely high turnover rate in the company. Make sure you know this before you accept a position. The codebase is atrocious, though there are efforts to modernize and improve it.

3.0
Jul 19, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of great opportunity to develop relations with Large Internet Retailer accts which is very valuable in terms of resume building. Also, good information sharing, somewhat open to ideas and allowing employees to work on those etc. PayPal also looks good on a resume, so it does open doors once you leave. Very large presence in Omaha, about 3,000 employees, decent facilities. People are nice

Cons

Many (not all) in UPPER managment are SO political and unqualified it is impossible to get anything substantial done unless you spend all day ego stroking and handing over credit for every thing you do to your boss. Those that do that, are the ones that stay in the same role for 10+years and are total company loyalists but are making a fraction of $ that others in their field are earning. Zero sensitivity to employees that are trying to advance, move into different depts. The tend to hold people back as much as possible, especially if you are making them (upper mngmnt) look good-they do not want to lose the valuable people. They hired so many upper mngmnt that were laid off First Data people and they added so many ridiculous processes on top of processes and then they hired all their own mngrs and got together like a new firewall so that no one that was NON FIRST DATA had any chance of moving up. Really sad because prior to all the changes it was a great, productive, career nurturing place to work. Also the pay in OMAHA office is horrible for Mngmnt level. WAY below industry standards-and WAY less than San Jose people doing the same or similar roles. I made 85k more income the FIRST year after I left PayPal! They need to tap into the existing talent pool that they have instead of letting valuable people go, and keeping the people that have been there 10 years and have no other career experience to bring to the role.

2.0
Jul 15, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- working for top payments company - benefits, pro-active green card processing - takes care of everything

Cons

- If you are a person who love to code and design don't come here; You spend more and more time on discussing, and process less and less on coding/design - Tools are broken; sometime you feel helpless - There are no best practices established - No mentor for new joinees

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