PayPal reviews

3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(9,609 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 9,609 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 Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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10K reviews
1.0
Jun 9, 2015

Seems good at first, however they micromanage at ALL levels.

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Pros

Decent benefits package, if you stay there 5 years you'll get a 1 month sabbatical. The entry level people are great and will be lifelong friends.

Cons

They try to hype how they are the "best place to work" in the valley, however they basically bribed and gave an ultimatum to employees in a company town hall, saying if they didn't get it, employees wouldn't get some requests from the yearly company survey. In addition, I worked my way into management and it was completely corrupt towards the end. People were getting promotions because they were hired by friends not due to actual ability. Most managers are under 30 and have no idea how to manage. They care more about hanging out and playing on their phones than actually helping teammates.

2.0
Feb 27, 2015

Constant reorganization and blatant favoritism.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

-Great benefits -Work from home opportunities PayPal has great benefits and programs to take advantage of, there's no doubt about it.

Cons

-Poor work/life balance -Zero accountability -Employees are held to very different standards -Arbritary metrics for evaluating employee performance -Blatant favoritism between managers and employees -Decisions are an extremely long process. -Decisions made without considering impact to employee Decision making is severely lacking. Even the most simple decisions take an insane amount of time. Upper management says all the right things, but middle management never follows through and nothing changes for the better. Promotions are difficult to get unless you're a woman, as social agenda issues run rampant through the organization. Reviews, raises, and promotions are based on arbitrary data, and favoritism tends to rule each decision. Women are clearly favored and given special treatment including special seminars and paid company trips.

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