Great vision - Senior Software Engineer PayPal Employee Review

4.0
Jun 30, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Company has a great vision - democratizing financial services for everyone. A lot of social justice and diversity programs within and outside the company. Company policies and communication demonstrate caring for employee well being and doing good work in the community and the world. Competitive compensation with stock as long as the stock keeps rising like it has. Flexible time off as long as you have a good manager.

Cons

Burnout from putting out fires all the time. Everything is top priority. There's a constant drive to start new projects before the old one was fully completed. Positions don't get backfilled when people leave as long as the work continues around the same pace, which people stretch to do. Not enough time and resources invested in quality improvements - devOps, architecture design, individual learning, etc. There's not enough senior tech leadership / oversight, so a lot of garbage code gets written that ends up causing a lot of time-wasting issues later on.

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Pros

Good work life balance. Lot of opportunities to learn

Cons

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2.0
Apr 13, 2026
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Pros

PayPal has a lot of potential. It has two very strong brands in PayPal and Venmo with significant awareness and user bases that other companies envy. There are pockets of teams that are really pushing the envelop to reimagine what PayPal and Venmo could be—especially the Venmo team—and to move with speed given the company must stay focused and not waste time with Apple Pay, Shop Pay, and so many other competitors nipping at PayPal's heels and aggressively taking market share.

Cons

While some teams are pushing to self-disrupt and are moving fast, too many teams—and I'd argue the majority of the company–are living off of PayPal's laurels from the late 2010s through the pandemic. The culture and mindset have to change for the company to remain competitive. Otherwise, they are the Titanic and they're sinking slowly. The former CEO who only last 2 years tried diversifying the company's revenue, planning for the future. But the board and its former chairman (now new CEO) felt he wasn't moving fast enough to stabilize and marketshare. Instead, the board hired the former chairman who made computers and printers at HP—another sinking ship—to lead the oldest fintech company. The loss of confidence in the leadership team and the strategy are only accelerating.

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