Pros: A great place to start if you're an RCG and it gives plenty of experience in business Software Engineering.

Cons: Not a lot of innovation if you're a lower-level or mid-tier engineer. Not a lot of say in architecture/design decisions.

Pros: The pay was pretty great for a starting developer, also stock options.

Cons: Everything else was absolutely terrible. Cliques form, and if you're not in the clique, then during "calibration" month, expect to be dinged for the most asinine things. I watched two people get fired because they were in the lounge and were five minutes late to a meeting – a meeting even the manager came into late because he was in the lounge. And that's how he knew those two people were there. Yeah. The entire establishment is "rules for thee, not for me." I got out as soon as I saw what was going on to my coworkers and never looked back. Read up on stacked ranking and calibrations. PayPal very aggressively pits its own employees against each other, and the managers sit back and joke about it. They think it's funny, a game.

Pros: Good work-life balance, good salary, and benefits.

Cons: Constantly changing technologies and less focus on quality.