PayPal reviews

3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(9,613 total reviews)
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Enrique Lores

49% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

PayPal has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 9,613 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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2.0
Jan 29, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good work life balance. Benefits are great. Especially the 5 year sabbatical leave. I started when the company first started up, so my pay was much better than what they pay now. When eBay took over, it was a great place to work and not a lot of drama.

Cons

If you are on the phones, you can expect to deal with upset customers all day long. After the split from eBay, the company has started a revolving door policy with employees. Getting rid of loyal employees that had been there for a long time and were getting paid better, so out the door. I was at the top of my pay grade and my bosses kept after me about retirement. They seemed very determined to get rid of me. They use Medalia surveys for customer satisfaction metrics and it is junk science at best. I had many surveys that should have been appealed, but upper management did nothing. Nobody uses common sense. They put me on an action plan and I was doing quite well, but the let me go regardless on some trivial issues. The main goal was to get rid of me as I was making about twice the salary of an average agent. If you are hiring on to the call center, my advice is to beware. You get wrote up constantly and micromanaged to the point where the stress is unbearable. The metrics they hold you to is almost unreachable. You deal with calls all day long that cannot be resolved and you are constantly saying no to the customer and they expect way too much out of you.

4.0
Aug 27, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Quality engineers afforded opportunity to do development work. Some teams have plenty of learning opportunities

Cons

alot of older folks who has dated working models or even not up to date in technologies. some engineers plays politics more than doing actual work.

2.0
Feb 28, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

People for the most part are talented and passionate about what they do. Nice amenities (gym, cafes, coffee bar, free sodas), flexibility in work hours, working from home.

Cons

Years ago Paypal had great vision but now is floundering and trying to be "a bank but not a bank". It makes my heart hurt to think about what the company once was and what it has become. VPs are more concerned with managing up and getting face time with the C-level than with managing their businesses and ensuring their teams can be successful. Leadership is inconsistent--constant changes of opinion, of approaches, inconsistency between words and action. People who are glorified sales reps are put in positions of running large businesses that are now floundering. Lack of people development; difficult to get promoted. Negative politics, turf wars and kingdom building run rampant. Have to be a a "yes man" to be successful; can't voice opposing points of view without repercussions. Values and behaviors look good on paper but few people exhibit these. Compensation is low, and often unfair--women on my team made less than the men, directs made more than their directors and VP management doesn't care. I once was a huge advocate for getting people to work here, but at this point the company is off the path to success and instead is becoming a "me too" company--following the likes of Apple, Google, Square instead of leading.

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