Great experience, mediocre system, and poor development environment - Software Engineer PayPal Employee Review

4.0
24 Nov 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great company which is doing extremely well in the marketplace. In some groups, the code you touch affects the livelihood of millions of people. A great place to learn about payments and payments processing. Some really top notch engineers.

Cons

More than a few mediocre engineers just coasting. The code base is kind of a mess, although many efforts are being made to fix things. The development environment, building and testing, was a real mess when I was there, although I hear that things have gotten a bit better.

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5.0
17 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Work life balance and interesting merchants

Cons

The stock price limits upside

2.0
26 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great people, smart people. With new CEO, maybe things will get back

Cons

Been a horrible last 3 years. Non-stop re-offs, new leadership that cut everyone and brought in new people who don’t know anything. No clear priorities, no leadership.

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