Perfect if you like self-promotion - Anonymous employee PayPal Employee Review

2.0
5 Feb 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Decent money and good benefits. Sabbatical at the 5 year point. Facilities are hit or miss depending on where you work

Cons

If you're one of those people that are better at bragging about what you're supposed to be doing instead of actually doing it, you will go far at PayPal. Instead of focusing on results and how people are getting them, senior leadership would rather play political games and only promote people in their club. Brown nosing = success

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PayPal Response
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Thank you for investing the time to comment on how we can continue to keep PayPal an employer of choice. We know that it has been awhile since our last Voice of the Employee survey and we are excited to be launching a new, more-frequent, and mobile version later this quarter. The People / Talent organization is committed to ensuring you, as an employee and our customer, remain at the center of everything we do. I look forward to your survey feedback and please feel free to reach out and connect personally at any time. Thanks again.

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PayPal has a lot of potential. It has two very strong brands in PayPal and Venmo with significant awareness and user bases that other companies envy. There are pockets of teams that are really pushing the envelop to reimagine what PayPal and Venmo could be—especially the Venmo team—and to move with speed given the company must stay focused and not waste time with Apple Pay, Shop Pay, and so many other competitors nipping at PayPal's heels and aggressively taking market share.

Cons

While some teams are pushing to self-disrupt and are moving fast, too many teams—and I'd argue the majority of the company–are living off of PayPal's laurels from the late 2010s through the pandemic. The culture and mindset have to change for the company to remain competitive. Otherwise, they are the Titanic and they're sinking slowly. The former CEO who only last 2 years tried diversifying the company's revenue, planning for the future. But the board and its former chairman (now new CEO) felt he wasn't moving fast enough to stabilize and marketshare. Instead, the board hired the former chairman who made computers and printers at HP—another sinking ship—to lead the oldest fintech company. The loss of confidence in the leadership team and the strategy are only accelerating.

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