Pros
PayPal has fantastic talent, many smart and kind people. Great team spirit within teams. Very supportive of working from home or in other countries.
Cons
Within Marketing: Constant re- orgs, layoffs, change in people management without any accountability or self reflection on CMO level. Also partnering departments have to suffer from repeated re -orgs without full execution- hence processes are non existent, in constant change and only good looking on „paper“ or slides from external consulting firms. Due to several layoff periods within the last 2 years - there is a culture of fear to loose the job. People are not motivated to say the truth. Repeated poor reviews of leadership are being sugarcoated whilst good ratings such as teamwork - which is 100% the people who support each other through the frequent challenges - are being accounted for leadership. Analytics is extremely under stuffed and has poor tools available to measure success. HR is a disaster- and surely not your fried! You have to invest a lot of time in gathering reviews, writing reviews and development plans - which are never being followed up. Development is only happening through pure and sole own initiative and the exchange with great colleagues. The last three years my department had 8 people managers / interim people manager, 8 months no people manager at all. 4 Re-orgs and about 70% of white women 40plus on Director level have been laid off across the globe. Allocation of Bonus Budgets within departments are being allocated before the results of the 360 reviews are finalized or analyzed. Personal favorites are highly supported and have a lot of influence on the opinionated evaluation of leadership team members on leadership level.