Work here sucks! - Staff Software Engineer PayPal Employee Review

2.0
Jul 15, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- working for top payments company - benefits, pro-active green card processing - takes care of everything

Cons

- If you are a person who love to code and design don't come here; You spend more and more time on discussing, and process less and less on coding/design - Tools are broken; sometime you feel helpless - There are no best practices established - No mentor for new joinees

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Cons

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