Met amazing and brilliant people, they truly are kind and want to help you if they can. There's lots of ways to learn and grow if you join as a junior engineer. Also you get 401k matching up to 4%.
Where to begin? Since my time there, I've discovered major pay disparities between men and women of the same level for same location, the path to promotion feels arbitrary and highly political (you are more likely to get promoted if you are white ¯\_(ツ)_/¯), leadership has really dried up in terms of concerns of their reports, ultimately acting more as a mouthpiece for PayPal's interests, pay is lower than average compared to other major tech companies- they stack up low base with now failing stock compensation, quality of health insurance has declined significantly, everything must be built and connected through PayPal so trying to get any actual dev work done feels like pulling teeth because you are on a million email chains and Teams calls. I've had different managers during my time there and they are stretched way too thin to care about their direct reports career growth as well, they'll support you if they can but... don't hold your breath. Burnout and fatigue is a consistent issue among engineers and getting harder and harder to recover from. Some teams have to be on-call rotations two weeks out of every month. The way they have handled managing teams is no longer sustainable and I wouldn't be surprised if everyone rage quit at the same time.
Something is wrong with the stock. It can’t find any traction… Not a hater I love Venmo just talking about the stock. Nasdaq recovered a lot this year but pypl just acts so poorly.
It is trading at $61 as of 09/09/'23 The stock is down -18% YTD and -35% YoY and back to 2017. Paypal's business model was developed for the 1990's. Today there are countless ways to move money online, many of which are at razor thin margins for the processor. Real money is still being made by Vis...Read more
They have had both revenue and earnings growth and stock is down to below pre-pandemic levels. PYUSD crypto is a welcoming offering. Venmo user base is growing, Microsoft store integrated Paypal and its subscription volume is also projected to grow. PE <12 below S&P 500 P/E. What do you all think?
Pretty bored now with PayPal. I joined Venmo about 6 years ago and whole org merged with PayPal. All early stage engineers are out or on the way out and now I want to head out as well. What are some good companies with work life balance (40 hours or less), offer remote and can pay close to 450-500 a...Read more
Post says it all. Haven't been on the job market/chasing TC for 10+ years due to pretty much have settled down in the Chicago area. The company (Fintech) is migrating most SWE's to the UK due to our acquisition by the London Stock Exchange. Would appreciate any referrals for senior solution architec...Read more
I will send $50 to the person who’s advice I take on investing! Through venmo. I value your time to give me information and advice and reasons. My current state: I am a young person who has no idea what they are doing. I have $90k in cash and $34k in S&P and other stocks. I have Google stock coming...Read more
Have a good feeling tomorrow will be a low day in the market given all the news. That said, good time to buy when levels drop and even following day. That said, what stocks do you still think have room to grow? What positions are you building? In all of the below - feel free share thoughts Person...Read more
Trying to reach FIRE, want to get some advice from ppl who are further along the way to make sure I’m not making mistakes and am able to optimize my journey better. NW: 64k Stocks: 39k (tech, treasury bond, crypto, etc) HYSA: 51k (leverage for student debt) Student debt (all under 3% APR): 32k Bank...Read more