Account executive and credit sales intern Review

by PayPal

Rating

4.6/5
  • Skills
    4.8
  • Responsibilities
    3.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.8
  • Your Impressions
    4.3

    Overview

  • 1. 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.


    Skills

  • 2. 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

    Responsibilities

  • 3. 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

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. 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

    Culture

  • 5. 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

    Your Impressions

  • 6. 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

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at PayPal
  • 4/5

  • 7. Would you recommend PayPal to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. 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.


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Sales

London

March 2024


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