PayPal reviews

3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(9,632 total reviews)
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Enrique Lores

44% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

PayPal has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 9,632 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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3.0
Apr 3, 2016

Politics

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Health care, gym, 25 days holidays

Cons

It's not how good you are it's about how much you lick up to management. You can go through talent ready but ultimately its your team leader who makes the decision on who gets promoted. You need to be a best friend and play the game.

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PayPal Response
10y
Thank you for taking the time to comment on your experiences here at PayPal; I’m disappointed you are not having a more positive experience over this past year. As you may know, in 2016 we are actively revising and updating our People Manager / Team Leader expectations to align more fully with our cultural pillars of inclusion, wellness, innovation, and collaboration. By extension, our hope is all the talented people at PayPal will have a more precise idea of what it takes to personally succeed and professionally advance. Thanks again.
2.0
Mar 9, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good compensation and work life balance. This is why most people work here.

Cons

People are hired and promoted by relationships only. Entire leadership teams are of same nationality who speak well but don't have any clue on how to manage engineering teams. Too many metrics and dashboards are fabricated. Code quality is a joke as developers and leaders are all timeline driven without nearly enough interest for investing in developer productivity, tooling, education, and testing. Branching hell adopted to control the poor build and code quality before release.

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PayPal Response
10y
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback and perspectives. While it is always hard to hear that a former employee did not have an ideal experience at PayPal, I feel good knowing that we are already working to address the issues you’ve advised us to focus on. Inclusion is one of the PayPal values because we recognize that better results come from diverse teams. We still have opportunities in some teams to improve our diversity and we remain committed to this journey.
1.0
Feb 5, 2016

Good Little Robots

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent pay, good benefits, nice campus with lots of amenities.

Cons

Micro-management to the extreme. Your computer screens are recorded from the moment you login to the moment you logoff. It's your supervisor's job to review your actions/interactions weekly and ding you whenever a mistake is made; for example replying to an email sent to the team while you're clocked into a productive task. This power can and will be used against you. If your supervisor wants you gone they will monitor everything until they find something to write you up on. The internal promotion/application system is bad. You pick 5 jobs you'd like and whenever a position opens up, they look at everyone who has that job in their #1 spot and whoever has the current highest stats will get picked without an interview. So if you transfer into a job that's not your strong suit you will be trapped in that position until you leave the company if you never out-perform your coworkers. We had three senior agent positions open in our department and all three positions went to people outside of the department with no experience in our field. So it was over a year before they were of any use to us as Senior Agents on the team. There is so much back-stabbing they could film a reality TV show there. One of my coworkers was late for work one day and forgot to clock in. When he realized this he emailed the supervisor saying he was late and forgot to clock in and asked her to edit his timecard. He didn't know for sure so he gave an approximate time and she made the adjustment. She then looked at the timestamp of his badge swipe at the front doors and saw it was a few minutes after the time he told her. So she fired him for trying to scam the company out of a few minutes of paid time. I was fired because I sent an email, stats for our team, while clocked into a "productive task". I know of people who were fired because they clocked out to break before closing out of the case they were working on. If you are not a perfect little robot and your supervisor doesn't like you, they will use everything in their power to get you out the door because there's plenty of other robots who want off the phones.

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PayPal Response
10y
Thank you for sharing your feedback and experience as a Chargeback Agent in Omaha. As part of our commitment to delivering a great customer experience we do conduct quality performance reviews. This is done in an effort to ensure our teammates are delivering and efficient and quality experience to our customers. In addition to the customer experience these reviews are leveraged as part of our strong commitment to employee development. If opportunities are identified leaders will work closely to provide feedback and coaching to our teammates.
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