Homogeneous team and culture of meh - Senior Manager PayPal Employee Review

2.0
Mar 9, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good compensation and work life balance. This is why most people work here.

Cons

People are hired and promoted by relationships only. Entire leadership teams are of same nationality who speak well but don't have any clue on how to manage engineering teams. Too many metrics and dashboards are fabricated. Code quality is a joke as developers and leaders are all timeline driven without nearly enough interest for investing in developer productivity, tooling, education, and testing. Branching hell adopted to control the poor build and code quality before release.

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PayPal Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback and perspectives. While it is always hard to hear that a former employee did not have an ideal experience at PayPal, I feel good knowing that we are already working to address the issues you’ve advised us to focus on. Inclusion is one of the PayPal values because we recognize that better results come from diverse teams. We still have opportunities in some teams to improve our diversity and we remain committed to this journey.

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