Braintree Reviews

Cons

Sometimes folks will get bummed when there isn't their favorite flavor of LaCroix or get cynical about PayPal bureaucracy. It's true that there are some rules, but the Braintree culture is still so alive. Nothing to complain about!

Cons

Lack of upward mobility can be an issue

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Workload is extremely high. The pace creates for long hours.

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PayPal has increased its control over Braintree and more of the bureaucracy is creeping into the daily life of being an engineer. They don't do a great job of training hires who don't have a natural proclivity for the type of work Braintree does. Training is pretty much 100% on the job which can leave some people behind.

Cons

Like another review stated, "PayPal with ping pong." Becomes more and more like PayPal every passing quarter, both culturally and in terms of management/goals. These are not positive changes. The bigger Braintree gets, the more the company tries to hold onto this idea of being a fun, small company with its own separate culture from PayPal. This just isn't the case. People used to hang out at the office after work, form friendships between departments/teams, etc, but not anymore. It's gotten cliquey and competitive. Managers have minimal manager training. There's almost no recognition for good work (especially when it comes from non-Product teams), only for early hires who are still around and have, seemingly by default, become team leads.

Cons

Success is rarely noticed or acknowledged in any meaningful way. If you are looking for a job that you can stand out in, and use as a stepping stone, keep looking. If you are looking for a comfortable entry level role to stay in long-term, this may be your place.

A company that once did a great job of noticing talent has been put under PayPal's thumb. It shows.

Cons

- They make you believe this is a start-up company, but all they are trying to do is keep their employees by offering petty benefits. It's cool to have unlimited PTO, but statistics show that employees take even less PTO when you have this perk. They know that, so they do this.

- Lack of vision. A lot of the people here think they are super smart, but the truth is that they are just book smart and want to be stagnant in a position for many years as they think they landed their dream job. The CEO has done a great job keeping people comfortable.
- Lack of experience - A lot of employees are young, myself included. This gives us the impression that we are smart and know everything. The problem is that there is a lot of people that lack the experience to make a correct judgment in upper management.

Cons

Lots of generalist engineers can occasionally lead to putting out less in-depth, less proven technical solutions.

Cons

You are not working for a start-up. You are working for PayPal. Whatever comes to your mind when you think of PayPal is probably correct. You're not innovating with sexy tech.

The startup bones are still there in the form of completely unqualified management. Early hires are managing large departments and they shouldn't be. There are a lot of elephants in the room. Some teams are happy, others are in a constant state of anxiety. The anxiety isn't because they're too busy.

Very distracting open office that is somehow used as a selling point.

If you're considering a role here, be aware that the flowery speeches in the interview haven't been revised in awhile. The company isn't "metrics driven" in that you will have no fair warning that you're being judged by metrics, but you sure are.

Career advancement is mostly about luck and lateral moves. I think they finally stopped calling it a 'flat structure' but they were using the term for far longer than it was appropriate.

Cons

• senior leadership is seriously lacking in vision and execution
• now owned by PayPal for 2+ years and increasing control and culture from PayPal (which are both pretty awful)
• product development is fragmented, often ineffective, changes direction based on latest whims of management without much hard market research and data to support direction