Not a good place anymore
Not a good place anymore
Good location, nice campus and facility.
Too many meetings - almost 50% of the day is spent in various meetings.
Different vertical teams are hard to communicate with, and the communication can be quite inefficient.
Politics are floating around everywhere.
Lots of re-orgs.
The space for career growth is not much.
I worked for PayPal for almost 6 years. Recently, lots of my former PayPal colleagues, including myself, left the company. The Bay Area is a place with a lot of opportunities for talented people. If the management doesn't care about the talented people you have, they will leave, sooner or later.
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