Great company overall - Software Engineering Manager PayPal Employee Review

3.0
22 Jul 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Brand value , market leader is payments , smart folks overall. Consistent growth. Campus in San Jose is nice. Some groups have good amount of fun.

Cons

Too many reorgs in product area, ex eBay "leaders" killing the culture of bottom up innovation. Some key tech "gurus" prevent any kind of change in infrastructure.

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PayPal Response
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Thanks for your input. Management quality and effectiveness is a focus for us and will continue to be. We recently had employees complete the Impact survey to help us identify managers that need additional support to be great managers. Our hiring bar for hiring leaders is high, and has improved in consistency since we rolled out the VP Advancement Committee that now has a full vetting process for all VP level promotions and hires. The adage is true, you join a company and leave a manager, so it’s critically important to us that we have managers at PayPal who embody our values of innovation, collaboration, inclusion and wellness and that they coach and support their staff.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

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