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Juan Benitez
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Pros
"Work/life balance is truly respected" (in 10 reviews)
"prioritize learning, work life balance, challenging yet rewarding products, catered lunch/breakfast" (in 12 reviews)
Cons
"They went through some tough times early in the paypal acquisition, but they did get through and are stronger than before" (in 3 reviews)
"Mandatory pair programming, up to 7 hours a day" (in 2 reviews)
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"Great experience"
StarStarStarStarStarI worked at Braintree full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Awesome environment, supportive managers, and focus on diversity and inclusion
Cons
Hard to have any upward mobility
Braintree 2019-03-05 11:45 PST![Braintree Logo]()
"Good Culture"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Braintree (More than 3 years)
Pros
The people and culture are great.
Cons
Owned by PayPal, more and more Braintree is losing it's startup identity.
Braintree 2019-02-03 07:16 PSTHelpful (3)
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"Some great people; lack of career growth & accountability for poor leaders"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Braintree full-time (More than a year)
Pros
- Some amazing, incredibly smart people who deeply care about their teammates and the product
- Commitment to D&I is better than most places I've worked. There's still a lot of work to be done, but this was one of my favorite parts of working at Braintree
- Good work life balance, excellent benefits including discounted stock (mostly thanks to PayPal)Cons
Your experience is going to different drastically by team; poor performing Managers can really break your experience there, and unfortunately Senior Leadership was often willing to not act on feedback about toxic managers. There's also very little opportunity for career growth; there are plenty of really smart and talented people who have nowhere to grow because their teams aren't structured in a way where everyone who is capable of more challenging work is given that opportunity.
Braintree 2018-10-04 15:02 PDT![Braintree Logo]()
"a lot of work"
StarStarStarStarStarPros
good people, they care about you
Cons
bad management, people are all over the place
Advice to Management
not long term
Braintree 2018-08-23 06:12 PDTHelpful (4)
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"Great at Getting People in but not Keeping Them"
StarStarStarStarStar- Work/Life Balance
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Braintree (More than a year)
Pros
- Free daily lunch
- ESPP up to 10% of your salary (especially with a growing stock like PYPL)
- Great overall team camaraderie
- Tech office
- Transit reimbursement
- Work from home (depending on which team you are working for)Cons
- No significant growth opportunities unless you are a dev
- Underpayment is justified by benefits
- Free lunch causes you to work more
- Late nights working due to understaffing
- High turnover across most teams
- "Unlimited" vacation keeps people from taking vacation
- The company is not yet in the mature phase so there are no standard processes and the key decision makers are often a "clique" within departmentsBraintree 2018-08-04 21:46 PDTHelpful (5)
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"Awesome engineering culture, poor direction"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at Braintree full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Braintree prides itself on having a great engineering culture, and it really does. If you're passionate about building and shipping quality products, this is a great place to do it and learn from some really smart folks. Leadership takes the time to understand problems surfaced by engineers, and makes an effort to remove tech debt. It is truly a great engineering culture. Effort is also made for employees to invest in themselves, by sending employees to two conferences a year. In addition, every other Friday is reserved for learning working on passion projects or work projects where you might not ordinarily have time.
Benefits are really good. PayPal offers a competitive 401k match, health care offerings are great, and time off is generous. Because we pair at Braintree, the hours are pretty strictly 9-5 which is hard to beat.Cons
In my time at Braintree, PayPal has gone from a faraway entity which cuts your paychecks to an overbearing presence, and frankly, a constant downer on your day to day work. Since it acquired Braintree, PayPal seems to not know what to do with it. More and more PayPal uses Braintree as a crutch for its own bad tech. Like every inexperienced film director saying, "we'll fix it in post," PayPal leans on Braintree to power products that it cannot deliver itself.
PayPal has done a lot of good things with Braintree, but by slowly removing the sheen from Braintree's pristine engineering culture, we have seen and will continue to see the hiring bar fall to the level of PayPal, and Braintree will no longer be the great place to work that it is now.Advice to Management
Stop letting PayPal leech away your values. Stick to what you know.
Braintree 2018-04-12 20:05 PDTHelpful (4)
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"Lots of Pros"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at Braintree full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Great teams to work with. Mostly everyone is on board to push Braintree forward and do whats best for the organization. Braintree hires great people from diverse backgrounds.
Cons
Could be better diversity in leadership positions. Ambiguity in the job can sometimes be frustrating. Can feel like there is a lack in consistent direction.
Braintree 2017-11-08 20:28 PSTHelpful (4)
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"Wow."
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Braintree full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
This is the best job I've ever had. As a software developer who has been worked into the ground at other companies I feel like Braintree has all it's priorities in order.
As an engineer here is what I appreciate:
1. We're a product company who's mission is customer success. When you, as a engineer, are arguing with your peers about what the best outcome for your customers is - you know you're working at the right place.
2. The company has large technical scaling issues. It's hard to get these problems other places and they are tough and exciting to work on.
3. Mentorship is available at almost every level; there are some very very smart people here.
4. Opinions and criticism are welcome and encouraged.
5. Automated testing is baked into the cultureCons
Like any company growing this fast there are problems with internal communication.
Advice to Management
You've got a very good thing going here and it will be tough to scale but please try! This is a special company with a special culture and I really want to see us succeed. I've already referred multiple friends because they are so impressed with BT after hearing about it.
Braintree 2017-11-05 12:08 PSTHelpful (3)
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"Sales"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Braintree full-time
Pros
Great office space & perks. Startup feel without the risk (since being acquired by Paypal). Many smart and friendly people -- a low stress and enjoyable work environment.
Cons
Nothing stands out. The company still wants to project a startup image, which is really no longer the case, but I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
Braintree 2017-11-19 11:13 PSTHelpful (1)
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"Great company"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOPros
Amazing culture and benefits. Work is challenging and always changing
Cons
There's a lot going on and can sometimes be difficult to keep up
Advice to Management
Keep doing what you're doing
Braintree 2017-09-27 08:46 PDT
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