Venmo reviews

- Management team is horrendous... dysfunctional, has no vision for the business, arrogant, and running it into the ground. While Venmo has had a number of bad heads of engineering, product, GMs, etc... the current regime is the absolute worst group of “leaders” this company has been exposed to. As long as they are leading the company, stay far far away. They are toxic. - A true lack of vision... PayPal wants Venmo to be PayPal 2.0. And there are 27 different opinions inside Venmo of what it should be. There is no alignment on where the business or product is headed, or criteria to determine which projects get prioritized. This lack of clarity and guidance causes an enormous amount of dysfunction. - Optimizing for PayPal’s quarterly earnings... Venmo is a growth business, but is managed like a publicly traded 20+ year old software company. Budgeting processes, business goals, project prioritization, everything is built to optimize PayPal’s quarterly earnings results. It has led to an incredibly reactionary type of management and churn, and has destroyed morale on the teams.

- Terrible, tone-deaf management. Their approach is to pretend like everything's OK and lie. - A lot of middle managers float at the top doing nothing. No leadership whatsoever. - Not innovative. Expect to be stuck doing maintenance. Expect passion projects to be killed abruptly. Won't further your career. - They reward sheep that follow orders. Not for out-of-the-box thinkers. - Good luck with your career trajectory if you're a woman.