PayPal Sr. Software Engineer reviews

Management actively promotes only those who tell them what they want to hear, and suppresses dissenting opinions. This is particularly acute with regards to project planning, resulting in half-backed, rushed code. A direct quote from management. "Don't ask the domain tech lead so many hard questions."

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.