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Passed through a bumpy ride of development, ridiculosis, and a rush environment

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at PayPal for less than 1 year
April 24, 2011
San Jose, California
3.0
RecommendsNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Good software development opportunity. Ability to learn new technologies. Frequent team outings and lunches. Able to move to different teams within the organization. Nice pay.

Cons

VERY VERY RUSH environment.

Stages were broken, and we were making stages work every day to continue our work.

Completely immature development environment which needs fixing ASAP.

Overall approach was to get work done in quantity and not quality.

Some senior developers were behaving like managers, and I had quite confusion about who was my manager!

One senior developer was shouting in the team meeting like we were working on some multi-billion project in the CIA!

Advice to Management

Please have a stable environment and give the developers a break.

My manager's claim to fix stages did not happen in my lifetime.

Don't just talk. Implement what you commit to the company.

Take the feedback from the people who are leaving and try to make your company better.

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