PayPal reviews

3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(9,604 total reviews)
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Enrique Lores

50% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

PayPal has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 9,604 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The PayPal employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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10K reviews
3.0
Jan 9, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It has a great business model, with a massive customer base, and by all accounts, it should grow into an absolutely enormous company (if it isn't already). There are no real competitors to speak of, and the area to grow into is enormous.

Cons

As a software engineer, this place has gotten too big for me, and the technology hasn't scaled at all. There's constantly a desperate attempt to manage resources and to make sure no one breaks the site in any way (which is understandable) which means there's way too much process and overhead and not enough time to actually write some code and see how it works. Too many people have conflicting priorities.

3.0
Dec 17, 2008

Not a bad place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good work/life balance, good opportunities for latteral moves. There is good cooperation between groups in different locations. The management is usually pretty good about giving feedback when asked for it. The management is usually pretty good about helping deal with members of other groups when needed. Management encourages a good work/life balance.

Cons

Work is not always as challenging as it could be. Other groups are not always as cooperative as you might want. Sometimes it can be not always easy to get in touch with the different people in the remote locations when you need to because of the time differences.

2.0
Dec 14, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Opportunities to work on products impacting lots of people. Many good coworkers. Good work/life balance, for the most part. There is a bus from San Francisco to the campus. Smart people that you will learn a lot from. Plenty of opportunity for movement within the company, between departments, companies, and countries. Salaries have become competitive over the last several years.

Cons

Politics, great disparity in terms of title/salary progression depending on the department you work in, very slow processes across all departments. The location is office park central, with nothing around. As is typical for eBay, salary adjustments are difficult to come by. The rank and file have very little faith in the senior management of the company (eBay inc.)

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