Passed through bumpy ride of development, ridiculosis, rush environment - Software Engineer PayPal Employee Review

3.0
24 Apr 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good software development opportunity. Ability to lean new technologies. Frequent team outing and lunches Able to move to different team within organisation. Nice pay.

Cons

VERY VERY RUSH environment. Stages were broken and we were making stages work everyday to continue our work. Completely unmature development environment which needs to fix asap. Overall approach was to get work done in quantity and not quality. Some senior developers were behaving like they are managers and I had quite confusion who is my manager !!! One senor developer was shouting in the team meeting like we are working in some multi billion project in CIA !!!!

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Cons

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