Account executive and credit sales intern Review
at PayPal
Placement (10 Months+)
Sales
Richmond
Review Submitted: March 2024
Overall Rating
4.6 /5
The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!
3/5
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Overview of Role
4.8/5
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Skills Development
5/5
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Support and Guidance
4.8/5
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Company Culture
4.5/5
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Overall Experience
4/5
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Future Career Prospects
Overview of Role
Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
working with variety of teams across sales, rev ops , business ops, marketing to support the account executives in upselling to the largest UK merchants. Also working hand in hand with our credit SMEs to manage the Pay later sales pipelines, driving meetings and working in a sales support type role. Day to day i am working on resources to aid the selling paypal produtcs, on call with large merchants , meetings internally and working on CRM regularly in salesforce.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
Yes a lot more than i imagined but have to prove your knowledge and value first.
Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
3/5
Skills Development
Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
A great sales experience. Fantastic sales exposure. Other skills picked up include account managment, CRM, excel and powerpoint skills, soft skills, tableau skills and many more.
How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
4/5
How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
5/5
How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
5/5
Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
5/5
Support and Guidance
How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
dedicated mentors in both teams i worked closely with and chatted regularly in office and weekly calls, one to one leadership meetings with line manager and others. Support is always available.
How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
5/5
How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
5/5
Company Culture
What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
very open, inclusive and involving. A great place to work
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
5/5
How would you rate the social opportunities?
5/5
How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
5/5
How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
4/5
Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
10/10 great experience for me as a graduate , would highly recommend to any placement year student or grad.
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
4/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
5/5
Future Career Prospects
Please rate the future employment prospects at PayPal
4/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend PayPal to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to PayPal
Use your personality and express it, talk about your hobbies and show some intent and excitement. The people is what makes paypal they are looking for motivated, team working, enthusiastic and sociable interns.
