PayPal

• Good work/life balance for teams that do not affect PayPal's bottom line.
• CEO is a great guy with a solid vision for the company.
• Good perks: free soda, lots of events, and technology training courses.
• If you can keep up with the high work demands, there is good upward mobility up to a certain point.

If you work on one of the critical back-end teams, you can kiss your weekends goodbye. It's very common to see people in the office until 7, sometimes as late as 10 for a deployment hand-off to an India team.

Mediocre culture (perks != culture). Although overall there is diversity, individual teams hire people like themselves (diversity != inclusiveness).

Non-flexible work for engineers. They always assign more work than is feasible to complete. They expect people to work at a constant output all of the time.

Managers may ask you to do extra on top of your work, which can be rewarding for your career, but is mostly to help the managers look better in their fight to look good.

Because everyone is overworked, team members are too busy to train new hires.

Don't get caught up in the petty battles to impress your boss.

Or, if you do, don't involve those working under you.