PayPal reviews

-Being owned (anchored) by eBay -Being a financial institution and not a software company in how we are run (Scott Thompson is a former Visa guy, so he's pretty much destroyed the silicon valley vibe the company had and driven off the more creative and brilliant rank and file developers.) -Our customers generally resent our draconian policies and fees (read articles with comment sections, anything related to PayPal or eBay - PayPal's parent, and you will see how much venom people spew at us... and if they weren't so right, I think it wouldn't weigh so heavily on my sense of job satisfaction.) -Salary freeze (even though we at PayPal delivered double digit growth, being part of eBay meant the company as a whole didn't do well, so we all get punished) -Getting eBay options (we recently fell into the single digits, while Amazon, eBay's closest competitor has been soaring up into the 70's – nullifying the excuses our executives keep blabbing about the economy being the cause – when everyone in, and out, of the company knows it's the direct result of our incompetent management.) -Having a board of directors that doesn't fire the head of eBay (read the eBay reviews to see how much he's reviled by our co-workers over on the eBay side of the company.) -With billions in the bank we had a layoff which was totally unnecessary, yet just because other companies are doing it, the clown-show-exec-staff decided to shrink the teams... then go on a shopping spree to buy Paylater for more than a billion. This is what I hate, times are tough and they figure they can do anything they want and people aren't in a position to quit... Well, sadly they might be able to do so now, but they're paying a high cost in terms of morale, and retaining the best of the best (who can find work in any economy.) -Having process' and procedures piled on all the time. Doing ANYTHING is an oversize in frustration at PayPal. -The corporate Network is slow... really slow (we're a high tech company!? really????) -Most of our tools are sub-par, and sluggish -Getting any suggestions to percolate up through the lower management filter to higher levels is impossible -Bonus' (back when we actually had them) were tied to shared goals... that are NEVER fully met. Many of my co-workers look at the most prominent of the goals, which is known as A.T.B. (average time to business) as a simple scam to limit bonus payouts. Nice to know that we grunts, who work like crazy get chiseled out of our bonus' by the multi-million dollar bonus earning clowns up top. -Metrics collection and "meeting the numbers" frequently will interfere with getting the real work done -There's ever increasing demands that we do more, in less time... unless you brown nose your way into a cozy relationship with your boss, you get no concessions for the extra time and efforts. -To summarize, PayPal is a very frustrating place to work. I've decided I'll hold this job a while longer (while the economy is so crazy), but as soon as things calm some, I'm going to fire this company and find a place that isn't so infested with incompetent management, and which isn't so completely obsessed with keeping everyone burried in process' and pointless side tasks.

If you love buttering to Manager , then this company is serious Heaven for you.Most of the good work taken by US Team.US teams treats Indian developer like Slaves and even if you do good work, slowly they will take over it and pretend as if they have done the work and you were just fixing or adding small feature.Bad work culture over here.Please don't join until unless you want to waste your life.Lot of firing happens. In Bangalore, you will lot of manager will go to US and book nice hotels and stay over there and visit to multiple cities by company budget and don't allow developer to go to San Jose or even any training or event.Whenever you approach for these thing then they will say "We have budget constraint". Don't trust if they show We are in Top Best Place to Work in India.If you looks stats on Glassdoor or Forbes it don't stand in top 100 also.So please don't trust if they show you or tell you that we are Top Best Place to Work in India.