Excellent pay but terrible work life balance - Analytics PayPal Employee Review

1.0
Jan 15, 2012
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Pros

The only thing that was good was the pay. The salaries are higher than what most companies dole out.

Cons

Work life balance goes for a toss. Timings are between 2 pm and 11 pm ( often extends well beyond 1am) , no employee development, most of the analytics work is data mining and creating reports ( for which they need not recruit from the best b schools) , the US analytics office treats Indian employees as if they have no brains and send all repetitive, data mining work to India. Analytics is more or less data mining . Don't be fooled by the puzzles and highly intellectual questions posed in the interviews or the number of rounds of interviews.

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5.0
May 15, 2026
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Pros

Good company to work for, good work life balance

Cons

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2.0
Apr 13, 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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