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What does a PayPal Engineer's daily life look like (highlights of a working day)?
I think you'll get a different answer from everyone. Mine is a bit unique because I'm a full-time remote developer (not super common at PayPal).
For me, I wake up when my kids wont let me sleep anymore (7:30), I take care of home and family stuff and start work at around 9:00. I work on at platform team in my org (peer-to-peer payments mostly), so I have a pretty flexible schedule and just work on the most important thing I need to work on (my last team has 2 week sprints, standup, etc.). I have a few meetings a week. I help other folks be successful with the technology they're using, and I'm building tools for folks. I normally take about an hour or so for lunch to send my daughter off to kindergarten and put my son down for his nap, then it's back to work until around 5.
Right now I'm working on a tool called paypal-scripts which is a lot like kcd-scripts (which is a lot like react-scripts) except that's specific to the teams I support at PayPal. It's a ton of fun 😀
I think you will hear a slightly different story from each one of us about how the typical working day looks :) I lead a small team. We all have staggered working hours since we all have different kinds of personal commitments. But we do have core hours at office that overlaps during when we have a stand-up to sync up on our day-to-day tasks as well as any dependencies that blocks us. As a manager I try to keep my team as much out of meetings as possible, so they can have some peace at their desk to work on exciting stuff. Our product and design teams sit right by us. SO we do have regular brainstorming sessions which covers a variety of things: from what goes into an immediate release to a long term vision for the team :))