Working As A Developer At PayPal - Software Engineer PayPal Employee Review

3.0
Jul 23, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Everything moves slowly so it's easy to meet expectations, hard to get fired.

Cons

Reviews and management incentives encourage politics and unhealthy competition.

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PayPal Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback on your time at PayPal. I hope you have found a new job that is a better fit. We have many excellent engineers with long tenure at PayPal. Based on employee feedback we hear that the majority of our tech employees are highly engaged and take great pride in working at PayPal. We’re a company focused on living into our core values of collaboration, innovation, inclusion and wellness. We strive to keep politics out of our culture and continue to refine our performance management processes to help develop more skillful and productive employees.

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