Incompetent Leadership, Half-Baked Ideas, and No Respect for Life-Work balance - Senior Software Engineer PayPal Employee Review

1.0
4 Feb 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- It's a job that pays money - As with any job that pays money there are nice people that are also stuck doing the same

Cons

- non-stop org changes (i've been through 7 managers in 4 years) - mandatory on-call - no direction (other than obsessive AI hawking in recent months) - no answer for the looming competition of Apple Pay - no-one has bandwidth for any ACTUAL innovation and improvements - you might spend months to a year working on a product just for the company to buy a third-party solution with a weaker implementation, just so some middle manager can justify their job - no respect for employees' time - no long term rewards - forced RTO 3-days a week (i was hired 100% remote initially)

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Cons

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