Typical mature, product run company - Anonymous employee PayPal Employee Review

3.0
Sep 30, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* Pay * 401k matching * ESPP * Onsite gym * Dominate player in the payments space

Cons

* Not very diverse * If you're not on the "right" ethnicity, you could have a hard time succeeding * Not a technology company, MBA run * To much "fat" * Lots of unnecessary layers of mgmt * Even after moving to an agile model, things still move slowly * "Bad" employees aren't purged, instead, they're just moved to another team

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PayPal Response
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Thank you for the feedback. We are in the process of our end of year performance reviews and have done work to ensure we have consistent definitions of performance expectations to help support managers in evaluating talent and identifying our very best and those individuals who may not be a fit for PayPal. This is a process that will take time, but I feel confident that we are taking the right steps to address the concerns you’ve raised. Thank you for the valuable feedback.

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