PayPal reviews

3.6

59% would recommend to a friend

(9,601 total reviews)
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Enrique Lores

50% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

PayPal has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 9,601 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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1.0
Mar 23, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Work from home option is available with flexible work timings

Cons

They have payments team in Bangalore and lot of their code is still in C++, they are hiring java developers in senior level and asking them to do support in c++ Lot of production issues every now and and then and every developer is asked to do support for 1 month in every 4 months During support you have to be available 12 hours a day from 10 am to 10 pm and as there are lot of issues/bugs developers busy in looking over issues in their huge c++ code base. Also development work is less and most of the time goes in domain and production support People talk less on technology and more on domain Managers promote people who are gaining more and more domain and involved more on support as Managers are also not technology people. They shifted their Bangalore office to some place with poor road connectivity. After shifting to new office there was not cafeteria for 8 months. Expensive food in cafeteria which started recently and PayPal provide just 1200 per month for food.

1.0
Feb 13, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Good Salary as per market Recently move to new Office

Cons

- Don't join this company unit and unless you want to work Day and Night for no reason - No innovation.If you talk about any innovation, let see what innovation Bangalore does.The reason of less innovation because people don't have a time to try new thing.Everyone specially in our team is busy in releasing feature in unrealistic timeline. - They are hiring so many people.DO NOT JOIN otherwise you life gonna screwed - They nominated for best place for work, don't trust that thing because that survey only filled by some employee only which are quite close to the company. - Bad timeline, process and work

1.0
May 3, 2016

Avoid At All Costs

Recommend
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Pros

The gym is pretty nice. I have nothing else to put here but need to write this to meet the 20 word minimum.

Cons

Everything else is terrible. Middle Management is concerned only with building their fiefdoms. Rather than work together, managers will sabotage the work of others if they feel threatened or overshadowed. This is not a company that you want to go to if you want to work to make things better or have any ideals beyond making your manager look good in PayPal's Game of Thrones managerial culture. Not only that, but every single business process internally is broken. The company runs everything on rushed artificial deadlines, resulting in tech-debt ridden software that is in constant need of replacement. When it does get replaced, it's replaced by yet another rushed out and tech-debt ridden solution. This is compounded by poor hiring standards resulting in sub-standard developers writing terrible code with little oversight and no code review. But who has time to review code when this feature needs to be rushed out by tomorrow? There are so many better companies to work for out there that there's no reason to come here. Leaving was one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life. I look back on my time in horror. It's like having left an abusive relationship. I still find myself stopping, shuddering, and then releasing a huge sigh of relief that I no longer work here.

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PayPal Response
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Wow. It sounds like leaving was the really the right decision for you and I applaud you for taking that step. I have a fundamental leadership philosophy that people should love their work. We spend so much time working that it’s important to find a place where there is a good fit, and clearly PayPal was not the right fit for you. However, I don't think that is true for most who work here. The PayPal you describe is not the PayPal I know. I’ve been working here for 4 years, and I acknowledge that we have work to do across the company to make things better. And I feel really good knowing that we are putting significant effort into making the right changes to create the best possible culture. I am proud to work in a collaborative, innovative and inclusive environment. I hope that you have found a new job that you love and I thank you for taking the time to share your feedback.
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