Pros
Braintree prides itself on having a great engineering culture, and it really does. If you're passionate about building and shipping quality products, this is a great place to do it and learn from some really smart folks. Leadership takes the time to understand problems surfaced by engineers, and makes an effort to remove tech debt. It is truly a great engineering culture. Effort is also made for employees to invest in themselves, by sending employees to two conferences a year. In addition, every other Friday is reserved for learning working on passion projects or work projects where you might not ordinarily have time. Benefits are really good. PayPal offers a competitive 401k match, health care offerings are great, and time off is generous. Because we pair at Braintree, the hours are pretty strictly 9-5 which is hard to beat.
Cons
In my time at Braintree, PayPal has gone from a faraway entity which cuts your paychecks to an overbearing presence, and frankly, a constant downer on your day to day work. Since it acquired Braintree, PayPal seems to not know what to do with it. More and more PayPal uses Braintree as a crutch for its own bad tech. Like every inexperienced film director saying, "we'll fix it in post," PayPal leans on Braintree to power products that it cannot deliver itself. PayPal has done a lot of good things with Braintree, but by slowly removing the sheen from Braintree's pristine engineering culture, we have seen and will continue to see the hiring bar fall to the level of PayPal, and Braintree will no longer be the great place to work that it is now.