It was a good place to work before they split from eBay - Senior Specialist PayPal Employee Review

2.0
29 Jan 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good work life balance. Benefits are great. Especially the 5 year sabbatical leave. I started when the company first started up, so my pay was much better than what they pay now. When eBay took over, it was a great place to work and not a lot of drama.

Cons

If you are on the phones, you can expect to deal with upset customers all day long. After the split from eBay, the company has started a revolving door policy with employees. Getting rid of loyal employees that had been there for a long time and were getting paid better, so out the door. I was at the top of my pay grade and my bosses kept after me about retirement. They seemed very determined to get rid of me. They use Medalia surveys for customer satisfaction metrics and it is junk science at best. I had many surveys that should have been appealed, but upper management did nothing. Nobody uses common sense. They put me on an action plan and I was doing quite well, but the let me go regardless on some trivial issues. The main goal was to get rid of me as I was making about twice the salary of an average agent. If you are hiring on to the call center, my advice is to beware. You get wrote up constantly and micromanaged to the point where the stress is unbearable. The metrics they hold you to is almost unreachable. You deal with calls all day long that cannot be resolved and you are constantly saying no to the customer and they expect way too much out of you.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
13 Apr 2026
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Pros

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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