Is PayPal a good company to work for?

PayPal has an overall rating of 3.5 out of 5, based on over 11,165 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 3% over the last 12 months. 58% of employees would recommend working at PayPal to a friend and 42% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about PayPal have been left by employees working as Intern , Software Engineering Intern and Software Engineer(Internship) .

Does PayPal pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, PayPal employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.7 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at PayPal. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at PayPal?

58% of PayPal employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated PayPal 3.7 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.5 for culture and values and 3.2 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at PayPal?

Software Engineer (671) , Senior Software Engineer (332) , Customer Service Representative (259) , Data Scientist (142) , Product Manager (139) , Manager (134) , Risk Analyst (124) , Software Engineer II (112) , Customer Solutions Agent (110) , Senior Product Manager (99) , Director (98) , MTS1 Software Engineer (93) , Senior Manager (87) , Software Engineer III (83) , Collections Specialist (79)

What are the pros of working at PayPal according to real employee reviews?

"Good work life balance with challenging and engaging goals." ((in 1030 reviews)); "The benefits are good and the work atmosphere was wonderful." ((in 936 reviews)); "peers were supportive and it was great to meet nice people" ((in 652 reviews)); "Not to mention it was good pay and everything was paid for by them" ((in 425 reviews)); "Good Salary and Perks" ((in 336 reviews))

What are the cons of working at PayPal according to real employee reviews?

"very frequent layoffs and reorgs" ((in 286 reviews)); "I had a bad manager that either wasnt able to support me or just didn't." ((in 225 reviews)); "No job security and not growing since last 2 years" ((in 109 reviews)); "Middle and upper management are focused too much on marketing requests at the expense of development needs." ((in 66 reviews)); "Too much politics If you are not part for paltform then in Payments domains not much of technical learning but you will learn Payments business" ((in 58 reviews))

What are employees saying about PayPal layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about PayPal layoffs and their outlook for job security at PayPal in 2026.

What are the top reviewed PayPal locations?

San Jose , Omaha , Chandler , Austin , New York , Chicago , Scottsdale , San Francisco , Phoenix , Los Angeles , Hunt Valley , Timonium , Philadelphia , Lavista , La Vista , Wilmington , Baltimore , Boston , Washington , Lutherville Timonium , Plymouth Meeting , Conshohocken , Dallas , Atlanta , Gilbert , Tempe , Houston , Texas City , San Diego , Seattle

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3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(1,337 total reviews)

Enrique Lores

46% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.8

Diversity & inclusion

3.7

Work/Life balance

3.7

Compensation and benefits

3.5

Culture & values

3.2

Career opportunities

2.9

Senior management

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3.0

Feb 14, 2024

Executive Assistants: Unstable & Unsupportive Work Environment

Executive assistant

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Pay is competitive with other companies. Benefits are decent.

Cons

Unstable work environment. Low morale. High turnover. Executive Assistants are treated like bottom of the barrel, and not supported or valued when their executives leave the company. EAs are not reassigned to another VP after their execs leave the company, and are required to find their own VP to support (or lose their job), essentially scouting out and selling themselves to keep their job. EAs also were just notified that they no longer receive stock options, or equity in the company as part of their AIP. Unsettling work environment.

1.0

Feb 14, 2024

Poor management

Technical solutions engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Decent pay. If you are in Sales you can travel a lot and "bill" your expenses to the company. That's how my manager V De Souza lived all his life. Almost expensing $20000 a year. Use that for going to out of country vacations.

Cons

Managers don't care. They are highly ego. Very judging all the time. Very prejudiced. If you started as MTS as a fresher out of college then you gradually can succeed knowing the mess of PayPal products. If not you will fail miserably. You will be given generic training on Payments that you can find from multiple blogs and YT but after that you will be put on job which you will not be able to do successfully as you will not have any idea of the PayPal spaghetti. Managers expect you to boot lick and that's the sure way to be on the job. They constantly rewrite the PayPal and Braintree documentation and call that as initiatives or achievements.

3.0

Feb 13, 2024

it was generally good

Data scientist

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

work life balance, unlimited PTO

Cons

low pay, low stock price, redundance senior management

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