PayPal reviews

Long development cycles. No processes. Biggest downside is slow promotion cycles. People are not promoted only based on merit but also based on the years they have been with PayPal. For example if you had two great years in a row, it will not help you even if you are promoted.

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.