PayPal Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"It's an excellent company to work."

"Worked here on a short assignment. Hated the office politics but enjoyed work."

"The development environment was very poor. Software was very brittle and did not work out of the box. It required a lengthy procedure to get it to work which required a level of expertise that was simply not attainable by a new person without already having the software up and running so as to be able to learn about it by running it. Documentation was conflicted and out of date. When asked for help, most people would simply refer me to other people, or to the out-of-date documentation."

"I have worked for PayPal, Inc. from 2005 until spring of 2013. The company is strong and is doing very well. They have good ethical values. Unfortunately, the life-work balance is not too pleasant. Employees often must stay late. The other issue is that PayPal doesn't want to send employees to training or classes. It is easier to fire one and hire another. If you are young and ambitious and have a good skills level, go ahead and apply to PayPal."

"I have been working for 1 year. Innovation is not much."

"Paypal is a good company to work for. It has good working environment and it's growing."

"Overall good."

What do you like about working at PayPal?

"Great benefits and good pay. Easy travel and good HR."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"It is a good company. Watch out for upcoming reorgs. They love layoffs."

What don't you like about working at PayPal?

"Way too big to get any innovation underway. The company finds it easier to buy another innovative company as opposed to building their own solution. Then that company is never incorporated into the overall solution."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Smaller teams with more authority. Moving the company to a single massive product department will only create a mediocre product."

"It was good experience to work with Pay Pal."

What do you like about working at PayPal?

"Working on good technologies."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Get on top of technologies."

What don't you like about working at PayPal?

"Politics inside team."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Work life balance is not good."

What do you like about working at PayPal?

"Innovative, culture open (encourages) to exploring new opportunities in other areas, encourages training/development, allows for leaders to step up and 'own' / drive work."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"If you work hard and take the initiative to lead, you will advance. But if you climb over people along the way -- it too will be remembered."

What don't you like about working at PayPal?

"We can tend to be schizophrenic - and priorities have changed often. There is a lot of talk of being a 'big start up' but I tend to feel that this is more of a cop-out than a benefit."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"At the time of this review we have a new CEO - so it's unclear how the changes being proposed will pan out, so I reserve my opinion at this time. I'm hopeful."

What do you like about working at PayPal?

"The people are intelligent and good to work with but very demanding."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"There are little to no opportunities to grow at Paypal. Upper management strives to grow their people but lower managers don't want anything to do with growing their people."

What don't you like about working at PayPal?

"Immediate manager wants to know everything we are doing at all times and at all hours. We have to update given tasks daily and he gets peeved if we don't update him."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I don't know, the company is so large that it is not possible to effect change on the low levels."

What do you like about working at PayPal?

"It's improving and the management is honest in accepting mistakes and ready to fix them."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"You should have a culture match, else you are screwed."

What don't you like about working at PayPal?

"Legacy baggage too much emphasis on conformance and security red tape."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Provide more resources and autonomy. Reduce red tape and legacy bs."

"Good company; complex, segmented environment; poor tools."

What do you like about working at PayPal?

"Outstanding benefits, solid company, good lower management. Lots of variety available."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't expect to ever know everything. Expect to feel dumb for the first year you work here. Accentuate your flexibility and ability to work in a poorly-defined environment without a lot of supervision."

What don't you like about working at PayPal?

"Poor upper management. Extremely enormous and complex coding environment. Poor developer support. Poor ownership of code areas."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Ask front line workers what works and what doesn't. Ask for specific feedback on their management chain without fear of repercussion."

What do you like about working at PayPal?

"Its aim to achieve its goal with the proper coordination."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Just be true, and work hard and sleep less in day time."

What don't you like about working at PayPal?

"Not proper management among different cross functional teams and management."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Just keeping working hard and keep taking more consultants as it helps."

What do you like about working at PayPal?

"I enjoyed the fast paced and challenging opportunities offered by the company."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Correlate your strong analytical experience and you will get really far."

What don't you like about working at PayPal?

"The politics especially for remote employees is remarkable and took me by surprise."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Continue to focus on processes to reduce costs and improve customer experience."