PayPal reviews

3.6

59% would recommend to a friend

(9,603 total reviews)
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Enrique Lores

50% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

PayPal has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 9,603 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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2.0
Sep 2, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Salary is higher than average and it is a well-recognized (if not well-loved) name.

Cons

Technological dead-end. Their entire code base is so convoluted that it is nearly unmanageable. This leads to a complete paralysis for development. In addition, their release methodology is completely a mess as it relies on a "big-bang" release with all components being updated at the same time. This is done supposedly as "risk management", but in reality it is simply because the various components are so tightly bound to each other that they must be updated in lock-step.

4.0
Sep 1, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

successful ("up and to the right") division of eBay, good opportunities for those with ambition. politics are not too bad, and the majority of people want to do the right thing.

Cons

long hours, excessive demands in some areas of the company. often feels like paypal is still the tail being wagged by the dog (ebay), even though paypal, as most successful area of company, should have more say in decisions, and more funding.

2.0
Aug 30, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

When I started it was one of the best places, they say you will move up in the company. Don't stay in a position too long because you will be stuck there. Insurance is good though.

Cons

Communication is non-existent. If you are one of the hard workers you don't get looked at as something good, you get looked at as doing something bad.

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