PayPal reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(9,649 total reviews)
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Enrique Lores

43% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

PayPal has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 9,649 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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4.0
Sep 23, 2014

Good job

Recommend
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Pros

Good people and culture depending on what department you end up in. Wonderful benefits. Overall I recommend the company but just be careful a lot of cliques in management. Sabbaticals.

Cons

Communication between upper management and below is an issue. More about who you know to get promoted. They should pay more as tenure means nothing here, which is not how it used to be.

3.0
Sep 23, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you're looking to get hired easily and put a big company on your resume, look no further. They will pay for your school and even some professional certifications, no tenure required.

Cons

Don't expect much of any opportunity to handle larger responsibilities on a relatively short-term basis. In most places being able to showcase your talent will open doors for you and improve your CV when you look at advancing your career, but with PayPal you'll just get discouraged when you're slapped in the face with the fact that you need to spend another year or two on the incremental raise treadmill before you're given consideration. If you're looking for a quick resume booster, it's great. If you're looking to build a career, look elsewhere. Pay is substandard for most fields not handling calls. If you have 5 years to give and aren't concerned about the low pay, it's great - you can have PayPal reimburse a good chunk of your schooling and maybe a professional certification or two, then get your sabbatical (4 weeks paid leave, granted every 5 years of service) and jump ship. By the time you've been here for 5 years you've got enough experience to easily make 50% higher salary elsewhere. The lack of competitive pay is something brought up regularly in internal surveys but management insists the comprehensive picture is better, as though they expect anyone to believe a month of paid leave makes up for salary $20k/year below competitors.

2.0
Sep 23, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

No micro-management but favouritism and local lobbies are deeply anchored which could block your way up.

Cons

They want to Yankee you up! And robotise you. Processes sometimes can't be applied to certain markets due to culture differences but it doesn't seem to bother them despite many and many complaints and feedback. Salaries are under standards, good job to build up a cv though.

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