PayPal Reviews

Pros

Can’t describe how great it was to work for PayPal. Best company I’ve worked for to date.

Cons

I honestly can’t think of any negatives.

Pros

Great benefits, great training, friendly culture

Cons

Bureaucratic, sometimes poor communication between departments.

Pros

I got a chance to work with one of the best teams but sadly people left due to bad management

Cons

I also got to work in one of the worst team where I saw toxic environment, poor technical work and bad manager. So I guess it depends on the team and people.

Pros

Insurance is good and starts in day one. They recently changed insurance companies and it’s not as good as it once was. They offer a significant amount of time off. The company had a really good culture for many years.

Cons

There are a few good managers at the company, but the company is more about promoting those who can’t do anything else into management. They are very poor managers. They are abusive, manipulative and violate labor laws willingly. Bonuses will often be stock which has decreased dramatically in value. Pay is bottom level especially for entry-level. The culture has changed and there is almost no support especially in a virtual environment.

Pros

PayPal takes excellent care of their employees and those they serve.

Cons

I can't think of any.

Pros

Good pay and benefits. Friendly people and culture. Actually value employee wellness as evidenced by company-wide "wellness" holidays every few weeks during Covid since nobody was taking time off

Cons

Super-woke leadership, which permeates all levels of the company. Either a plus or minus depending on your political views. Work-life balance varies by manager and timing. About average compared to other tech companies I've worked for. Stock volatility/crash cost me a LOT of money while there. Layoffs are constant, and mostly suppressed. 2023 where they laid off 7% of their workforce (2000 employees) was too big for them to hide. But it was just one of many, which get to be their worst in the February-March timeframe.

Pros

Team members are great Work life balance is good

Cons

Pay is low when compared to other tech companies Stock dip is huge, making tc peanuts No proper direction moving forward

Pros

great WLB, but stock is down bad, unclear of the growth.

Cons

people are debby downers, lots of self centered fresh off the boat people.

Pros

Nice stock plans Yearly bonus

Cons

Training is not reflective of day to day duties Management is out of touch with day to day duties Little to no communication with coworkers Little to no avenues for help when needed 95% inbound phone calls (don't let the job description reel you in saying that you will take chats, you will not)

Pros

Nothing notable. I'd say the salad bar was decent at office but I dont really miss it. Despite the cons below, I'd still recommend the company because not all teams are alike. If you are lucky, you might end up in a good org with a good team.

Cons

1. Was typecast into a maintenance project/working on a legacy code base. Because of parental leaves, couldnt look for jobs outside. Despite expressing need for more challenging work for 2 years, NOTHING was done. 2. WLB - imbalanced on-call support. I was made to be the primary on-call guy for supporting a legacy app that was prone to frequent crashes. Not given cycles to improve its tech stack/performance, just to keep supporting it till its deprecation. 3. Because of above, no room for personal career growth/skillset upgrade. 4. Bad/basic parental policy. The managers treat you like you are going on a vacation if you take parental leave. 5. Disgruntled old time employees who liked being knowledge silos and hated sharing their knowledge unless coddled/getting manager involved.