PayPal Software Developer reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(634 total reviews)
avatar

Enrique Lores

26% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated PayPal with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 634 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. PayPal is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

Reviews by job title

634 reviews
4.0
Feb 14, 2016

software enginner

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good working environment and rapid growing company

Cons

Competition of business is getting increased.

4.0
Jan 22, 2016

SE

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Its a good company to work with

Cons

It has very slow growth

2.0
Jan 20, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Lot of scope for learning. You will have exposure to almost anything that you are interested in. Frequent training sessions to learn a lot on Payments and Technology. Some groups have really very good engineers who are both competitive and helpful at the same time.

Cons

Upward mobility is reserved for people with no technical skills but great at cronyism Product team in the most important non payment group is a joke, but unfortunately they have ears of Directors and higher ups. Since there is no "real" interactive session with engineers, management has no clue of reality and is mis guided by the product team. Product teams ends up getting all the credit / promotions for the work done by engineering team. This is depressing and sad. Very traditional management style. "Yes Sir / Madam" is most welcome. If there is any dis agreement or alternate view points, ideas are not fought, people who brought them up will be under the bus. Frequent re-orgs and lack of accountability at management level is just annoying. Huge mistakes by management are simply ignored / rewarded. Engineers pay the price almost always by putting in long hours and weekends to cover up for the mistakes done by management.

avatar
PayPal Response
10y
The experience you describe is definitely not the culture we are working to achieve at PayPal! We are striving to give employees a channel to express suggestions and help us get better at all we do. As a newly independent company, now separate from eBay, we have taken a step back and looked at our employee survey practices and have made a decision to make an important change. In June of 2016 we are launching a new (so new it doesn’t even have a name yet!) employee survey to capture confidential employee feedback (feedback will not in any way be tied back to an employee nor will it have any impact on our performance cycle). We will be asking questions to get to the heart of the comments you make here and help us find areas, and managers, that need to change.
Viewing 580 - 582 of 634 Reviews

Glassdoor has 11,143 PayPal reviews submitted anonymously by PayPal employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if PayPal is right for you.