PayPal reviews

3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(9,628 total reviews)
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47% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

PayPal has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 9,628 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
2.0
Nov 13, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good work/life balance Work for a leading player in the payments industry Work for a company that people are familiar with

Cons

Too many people at PayPal are working on the same things because senior managers are more concerned with building their empires and taking turf away from others than in the overall good of the company. People get promoted based on who they know and what they look like rather than their merits. PayPal does nothing to advance your career. Want to get promoted? Find a manager who likes how you suck up. Want to find a new role in the company? Do it yourself. There'll be little to no support from your management to find the right job for you. Want to get visibility? Sorry, not here. You feed your work to your manager so he/she can report it up and get visibility for themselves.

2.0
Feb 6, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

High growth business that could do great things. PayPal can do a lot and can be a market leader. The potential is there. The payments opportunities for PayPal are really huge and still relatively untapped. The compensation packages are pretty good. The management wants to do right by its people.

Cons

They don't care about doing good engineering. We have a bloated engineering organization that hires warm bodies. There is no focus on creating a solid product. Everything is turf war and political with the most decisions being based on what extend empires not what is the right thing to do.

2.0
Oct 4, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Job stability, they rarely fire full time employees.

Cons

Mediocre people's paradise because promotion and recognition is not based on what you have achieved but how close you get to your boss.

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