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Mathradas: Most of PayPal's 18,000 employees work in customer support and sales

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Amit Mathradas, GM & Head of Small Business NA at PayPal, explains PayPal's organizational makeup and customer feedback loops.

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“Kara, you mentioned we have 18,000 employees, but most of them actually sit in, you know, the customer support and sales.”

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Most of PayPal's 18,000 employees work in customer support and sales.

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Assessment

While PayPal Holdings, Inc.'s SEC Form 10-K filings confirm total global headcount figures aligned with the claim (approximately 18,100 employees as of December 31, 2016, and 18,700 as of December 31, 2017), PayPal does not publicly disclose the specific numerical or percentage breakdown of its workforce by functional department (e.g., customer support, sales, engineering). Because public corporate filings and disclosures omit job-function headcounts for 2017, this assertion regarding internal organizational distribution cannot be independently settled using public records.

PayPal's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016, reported approximately 18,100 global employees.
PayPal's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017, reported approximately 18,700 global employees.
Neither PayPal's 2016 nor 2017 Form 10-K/Annual Reports disclose headcount breakdowns by job function or department.

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[1] sec.gov [2] sec.gov [3] sec.gov [4] paypal-corp.com

"PayPal" "2017 Global Impact Report" OR "2017 Corporate Social Responsibility Report" "employees" "PayPal" "10-K" "2017" "employees" "customer support" OR "sales" "As of December 31, 2016, we employed approximately" "PayPal" "PayPal" "2017" "10-K" "employees" "approximately"

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Mathradas: Most of PayPal's 18,000 employees work in customer support and sales

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