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Everything else is terrible. Middle Management is concerned only with building their fiefdoms. Rather than work together, managers will sabotage the work of others if they feel threatened or overshadowed. This is not a company that you want to go to if you want to work to make things better or have any ideals beyond making your manager look good in PayPal's Game of Thrones managerial culture. Not only that, but every single business process internally is broken. The company runs everything on rushed artificial deadlines, resulting in tech-debt ridden software that is in constant need of replacement. When it does get replaced, it's replaced by yet another rushed out and tech-debt ridden solution. This is compounded by poor hiring standards resulting in sub-standard developers writing terrible code with little oversight and no code review. But who has time to review code when this feature needs to be rushed out by tomorrow? There are so many better companies to work for out there that there's no reason to come here. Leaving was one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life. I look back on my time in horror. It's like having left an abusive relationship. I still find myself stopping, shuddering, and then releasing a huge sigh of relief that I no longer work here.

Constant reorgs. I experienced 4 org changes and 6 different leaders in less than 2 years. Each one demanding a new plan and new strategy to be developed in the first weeks they took over. Everything is a priority and there is no resourcing to match. You take a job here, it's your 24hr a day 7 day a week commitment because "it's a rocket ship". 7am calls with EMEA, 9pm calls with Asia - it's normal to have 14hour days three or four days a week. It's a rocket ship for those with millions in stock, not the lower level employees who do the work. it's just a grind with no end in sight. You get one big project done, and there are three more you are behind on that you get called on the carpet for because that leader is upset his/her project wasn't the first one you did. Management runs from one fire to the next. It's all about greasing the squeaky wheels. And the politics are sooooo deep here it's crazy. There is very little thought to longevity of employees, outwardly the CEO talks about the importance of employees, but internally he is driving programs and demanding outcomes that can't be met by the organization staffing levels. So he is stressing out every department, bursting capacity limits, and demanding more and more every week to satisfy the thirst of investors and drive the stock price up.