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      PayPal Software Developer reviews

      3.6

      62% would recommend to a friend

      (635 total reviews)
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      Enrique Lores

      26% approve of CEO

      44% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      Software Developer employees have rated PayPal with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 635 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. PayPal is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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      635 reviews
      2.0
      Jan 20, 2016

      Politics politics and more politics

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Lot of scope for learning. You will have exposure to almost anything that you are interested in. Frequent training sessions to learn a lot on Payments and Technology. Some groups have really very good engineers who are both competitive and helpful at the same time.

      Cons

      Upward mobility is reserved for people with no technical skills but great at cronyism Product team in the most important non payment group is a joke, but unfortunately they have ears of Directors and higher ups. Since there is no "real" interactive session with engineers, management has no clue of reality and is mis guided by the product team. Product teams ends up getting all the credit / promotions for the work done by engineering team. This is depressing and sad. Very traditional management style. "Yes Sir / Madam" is most welcome. If there is any dis agreement or alternate view points, ideas are not fought, people who brought them up will be under the bus. Frequent re-orgs and lack of accountability at management level is just annoying. Huge mistakes by management are simply ignored / rewarded. Engineers pay the price almost always by putting in long hours and weekends to cover up for the mistakes done by management.

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      PayPal Response
      10y
      The experience you describe is definitely not the culture we are working to achieve at PayPal! We are striving to give employees a channel to express suggestions and help us get better at all we do. As a newly independent company, now separate from eBay, we have taken a step back and looked at our employee survey practices and have made a decision to make an important change. In June of 2016 we are launching a new (so new it doesn’t even have a name yet!) employee survey to capture confidential employee feedback (feedback will not in any way be tied back to an employee nor will it have any impact on our performance cycle). We will be asking questions to get to the heart of the comments you make here and help us find areas, and managers, that need to change.
      5.0
      Dec 1, 2015

      Great company with great people!

      Software developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Meaningful and challenging work with great atmosphere. Great people all around and also great managers. Many perks throughout the year :)

      Cons

      It's a big corporation, so sometimes things are out of you control (compared to a startup for example). Time zone differences are a bit difficult when working with the west coast

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