PayPal reviews

3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(9,629 total reviews)
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Enrique Lores

47% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

PayPal has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 9,629 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
Jun 17, 2015

A Numbers Machine

Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Somewhat flexible working hours and ability to work from home part time

Cons

Often expected to accomodate meetings at all hours of the day or night. No real career path. Regulalry do mass layoffs when a new CEO comes on board and layoffs are very much associated on whether or not you are in or liked by certain management. "Business Needs Moves" is a phrase you'll hear a lot as you get bumped from role to role without effective compensation or pay rises. All the talent leaves as they find better oay and appreciation elsewhere so you are constantly working with new hires which stalls progress.

3.0
Jun 13, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Growing network load. Growing staff. Amazingly effed up technologies that you'll never guess could work. Easy to make 10x difference to random processes. Extreme trouble-shooting culture good for true-full stack troubleshooters. Very good people to work with. Great work life balance (lots of kids on site during spring vacation, no eyebrows raised; working remotely post school hours is common)

Cons

High management is non-technical and doesn't stay too long, so lots of money/human lives poured into "projects" that never could succeed, while the essential work of paying off technical debt and scaling the system for each years new internet customers is done in the shadows by grumpy people that get poor review.

3.0
Jun 9, 2015

very political

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good salary and restricted stock units

Cons

very political. my team saw 5 managers in less than 2 years

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