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THE YEAR internship
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The University Experience Team would like to thank our 2020 Summer
PayPal Interns for a successful and exciting twelve week virtual intern
season this summer!
Everyone at our company was excited to have you with us and came
together as One Team, through this unprecedented time, to make sure you
would have the best experience in a remote work environment.
Our goal during this virtual season was to remain true to the intern program
mission and values of ensuring we deliver a valuable and relevant experience
for each and every one of you during your time with us this year.
We provided you the opportunity to work on real, meaningful projects that
made an impact on PayPal’s business and customers, a chance to meet with
some of our leaders, hear from various business partners, engage in
personal and professional development workshops, and build a strong
network with your peers and leaders. We hope you “leaned in” and were
able to take advantage of the amazing initiatives that were designed to
develop your strengths, focus on our personal and professional growth, build
a community, and have fun.
We are honored to have been a part of your career journey and couldn’t
be prouder of all you have accomplished during this internship. We wish you
Take care and stay safe!all the best in the year to come.
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We0eks61-4
orientation weeks - mission, vision & core values - meet the interns
W1ee9k 5
virtual intern events - business series
W2ee2k 6
team trivia - executive speaker series
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soft skills - social media
W2ee9k 8
executive speaker series - business series
Continued
W3ee2k 9
kivathon kickoff - executive speaker series
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business series - executive speaker series
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business series - soft skills - intern feedback
W4eek512
paypal pavilion - awards & farewells
WEEK 1 - 4 100
ORIENTATION POINTS
Intern orientation week focuses on welcoming
and introducing the interns to our company,
managers/mentors, their teams, and important
guidelines/processes to help them feel
comfortable and set them up for success.
Mission
Vision
anCd ore Values
Mission Vision
Our mission is to empower our early career Recruit and retain top talent that
candidates to discover, develop, and grow, inspires innovation, contributes to our
both professionally and personally, through business strategy, and builds strong relations
academic and industry related initiatives and with the community, inside and outside of
programs, offering real-world, meaningful PayPal.
projects that are mutually beneficially to the
individual and our business, and creating EXCELLENCE
opportunities to build strong relationships with Always give 100% effort, deliver with passion,
their peers and our leaders. and do things better than expected.
Core Values
QUALITY
Produce engaging, valuable, and relevant
programs and initiatives at the highest caliber.
TEAMWORK EXCITMENT
Work together as OneTeam and appreciate Foster openness, respect, and trust to create
everyone's talents, ideas, and time. an environment everyone wants to work in.
INTEGRITY ENERGY
Always do the right thing. Capture opportunities and make things
happen.
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Alison Qiu Sonia Kalwit
Arjun Dhalla Jackie Dong Thomas Jung
Brent Seymour Jiajing Zheng Viha Gupta
Charlotte Driscoll Jake Conway Vineeth Chitteti
Dhaval Dedhia Kevin Tolliver Vlad Stelea
Kevin Nguyen Luke Bartini Yashas Navaratna
Eric Weinstein
WEEK 5
VIRTUAL INTERN EVENTS
BUSINESS SERIES
Virtual intern events are an exciting way to
encourage interns to network, communicate,
and collaborate in activities that will connect
them to each other and the PayPal culture.
COAT OF ARMS
Global
Virtual Event 175
POINTS
Each team was to create with their own coat of Arms.
A Coat of Arms is a special design in the form of a shield that
Identityis used as a symbol of.
100
Business Series POINTS
INNOVATION AT PAYPAL
with Mike Todasco, Sr. Director
During the Business Speakers Series various partners gave
an overview of their brand and services or products, how
they fit into the PayPal ecosystem, and the impact they have
on our business model.
WEEK 6
TEAM TRIVIA
EXECUTIVE SPEAKER SERIES
This Game Show Trivia Contest event brought over 150
interns together to compete for Intern WoW Points and
bragging rights. Teams raced to be the first to buzz in to
answer general trivia questions about the world, our
company, and co-workers. This favorite classic brought
bonding, laughter, and fun to a whole new level!
175
POINTS
Encore Events
Team Trivia
My time as a PayPal intern thus far has been incredibly engaging
and informative. I’ve had the opportunity to meet (virtually) and
learn from so many amazing people, including fellow interns,
while getting a real feel for the culture. From a work perspective,
my intern projects are very much “up my alley” and have helped
me gain exposure to numerous facets of PayPal’s
business. I’m really enjoying my experience here and I’m excited
Evan Kirshto see what the remaining weeks have in store!
Executive Speaker smroftalP nommoC PVS
SERIES
with Tushar Shah
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POINTS
Tushar is responsible for PayPal’s Identity, Credit, Payments,
Risk, Compliance, Customer Service, and Finance and Data
Platforms. Leading the product and development of these
platforms. Leading the externalizations of these platforms to
our global customers. Transformation leader to enable PayPal
to get to 1 Billion active users and 100MM merchants
WEEK 7
SOFT SKILLS
SOCIAL MEDIA
50
POINTS Soft Skill workshops focused on developing innate human
qualities, such as communication, interaction, and innovation, that
help interns understand the importance of connecting to other
human beings in a meaningful way in the workplace.
Crucial Conversations - Brainstorming Big Ideas - LinkedIn Rock Your Profile
SocialWMhaetditahe Interns
Are Saying
Every day is a day
for #gratitude, and today I
am grateful for the chance
to serve and learn as
a #PAYPALINTERN and
#KelleyMBA student. Thank
you to my friends, managers,
mentors, professors,
supporters, colleagues,
coaches, and classmates
at PayPal and Indiana
University - Kelley School of
Business. #PAYPALINTERN
Hal Beresford
"Best of both worlds" is all that
comes to my mind when I think
about my ongoing experiences
at University of Maryland
Baltimore County and PayPal.
While the University taught me
to work hard to achieve my
dreams, PayPal very well knows
how to pamper it's interns and
make every struggle, every hard
work, worth it. This moment,
when I look back, I am happy
about all the decisions that got
me here.Proud to be
a #PayPalian #PayPal #PayPali
ntern #nationalinternday and
Akriti Ananda #retriever #umbc
This was pretty cool :)
#paypal #IpmaaynpAalniwntaerrznai
WEEK 8
EXECUTIVE SPEAKER SERIES
BUSINESS SERIES
During the Executive Speaker Series Interns had a
chance to meet our leaders who provided
professional and personal insights, early career advice,
and answer questions that are most important interns.
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SERIES
with Sri Shivananda
200
POINTS
Sri is a product and technology leader with experience in large scale
infrastructure and transaction platforms and web applications. A hands on leader
with a passion for innovating on technologies, building effective teams and a
focus on delivering competitively superior technology solutions to the business
while growing people in the organization and creating high performance teams.
100
Business Series POINTS
VENMO
with Darrell Esch, SVP GM Venmo
WEEK 9
KIVATHON KICKOFF
EXECUTIVE SPEAKER SERIES
-thon Kickoff
What is Kiva?
More than 1.7 billion people around the world are unbanked
and can’t access the financial services they need. Kiva is an
international nonprofit, founded in 2005 in San Francisco, with
a mission to expand financial access to help underserved
communities thrive. 350
What is Kivathon? POINTS
Kivathon is a week-long challenge, from 7/6-7/10, in which
US-based intern teams partner with a variety of Kiva
Merchants to produce solution proposals for real problems
faced by these businesses every day. After completing their
work with the merchants, the intern teams will create videos
about their work on 7/13. These videos will be judged by a
panel of experts and a winning team will be crowned on 7/17!
Rec-athpon
58 interns
8 Teams
6 Merchants
28 volunteers
5 Judges
goals: 1 Soft Skills Workshop
To produce a proposal/solution to address a problem statement
proposed by each Kiva vendor.
To produce a short video explaining the problem, their solution,
and the value they provided the merchant.
To promote the Kiva pop-up shop run in parallel to
this competition.
judging:
At the end of the Kiva Giveathon, a panel of judges will rank the
videos submitted by the teams based on a pre-defined set of
criteria and a winner will be crowned.
-thon
TEAMS
BoBo Studio Design Team Mac Cutting Boards
Eric Weinstein Annika DeRoos
Prasanthi Gurumurthy Daniel Mo
Julie Yeung
Leah Savarese Clare Tandy
Revanth Gumpu Hal Beresford
Sanjana Annamaneni Hemant Thobbi
Tanya Shree Reena Ross Goldberg
Tim Palmieri
Gooseberry Designs Team 1 Gooseberry Designs Team 2
Pallavi Nirmal Chaturvedi Iman Anwarzai
Anthony Tong Jessica Chen
Richa Israni
Shashank Raghunathan Laveena Kottwani
Zain Imran Maude Frye
Yijia Zhang Romil Karia
Dhaval Atul Dedhia
Soumya Kumar
Ostri Studio Sanket Pimple
Akshay Chawla Scented Designs
Sydney Andreasen
Elliot Choi Anna Chang
Jamie Reichenberger Anika Kamra
Mahesh Reddy Konatham Anisa Kundu
Rajan Choudhary
Viha Gupta Elisa Chang
Wenqing He Cassidy Locascio
Elizabeth Bauer
Sumsaara Team 1
Kimia Majd
Amulya Donthi Heidi He
Manahal Tabassum
PujithaNimmanapalli Sumsaara Team 2
Samantha Ngo
Siddarth Sankaran Arbab Saminullah Kasi
Vidushi Somani Andrew Pleat
Harshini Thinakaran
Jia Qi (Jackie) Dong
Keval Chavda
Maneesh Divana
Vignesh Kumar Thangarajan
WinnersVIDEO SUBMISSION
-thon
Mac
Cutting
Boards
Scented Gooseberry
Designs Team 2
Executive Speaker snoitarepO remotsuC labolG PVE/OFC
SERIES
with John Rainey
200
POINTS
John leads PayPal's Global Customer Operations team, guiding PayPal's efforts to
deliver on its promise of offering great services and experiences through its customer
service centers around the world. Prior to PayPal, John served as Executive Vice
President and CFO at United Continental Holdings, Inc.'s United Airlines, one of the
world's largest airlines and spent a combined 18 years between United and Continental
Airlines. He began his professional career at Ernst & Young LLP in Houston.
WEEK 10
BUSINESS SERIES
EXECUTIVE SPEAKER SERIES
100
Business Series POINTS
HONEY
with Ryan Hudson, Co-Founder
OEC & tnediserPExecutive Speaker
SERIES
with Dan Schulman
200
POINTS
Dan has been recognized as one of Fortune’s top 20 Businesspersons of the Year and he is the
recipient of the 2017 Brennan Legacy Award, given in recognition of his contributions to social
justice. Prior to PayPal, Dan served in leadership roles at American Express, Sprint Nextel
Corporation, Priceline Group, and AT&T. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations
and currently co-chairs the World Economic Forum’s Steering Committee to promote global
financial inclusion. Dan earned a BA from Middlebury College and an MBA from New York
University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He is also an avid mixed martial arts practitioner.
WEEK 11
BUSINESS SERIES
SOFT SKILLS
INTERN FEEDBACK
I would say that the virtual program has been wonderful in that it really
allows you to connect with so many people across the PayPal realm.
Since we are sheltering in place still and not physically in the office,
people are eager to talk and connect with each other. The virtual
program has really been able to channel this energy via the connect
app as well as an intern meetup channel on slack. These channels have
really given way to some meaningful conversations as well as some
connections that will outlive the internship. When asking many
employees about what is the best part of working at PayPal, the
common response is “the people.” I think this is very true, and the
Issac Askeyvirtual program has been able to successfully make this a realization.
100
Business Series POINTS
PAYPAL SHOPPING SUITE
with Hunter Ke, Integration Eng.
INfTEeReNdback
Thank you very much! To be honest, I have worked in a couple of companies and that is the
Theo Guignardfirst time that I receive such a great welcome! Thank you very much to all you team!
I wanted to share my personal I think the virtual program has I have really appreciated all the
takeaway from my experience. As been amazing! I am so thankful efforts University Programs has put
an intern, in this current climate into making this virtual internship
(Covid-19), I understand that the that we all have internships amazing. My favorite part has been
intern program had to be adapted and are able to attend various the business and executive
quickly. I never recognized any talks and ask questions. I love how speakers from all aspects of the
hiccups as we seamlessly adapted company. In addition, your
to a strictly online format. One the program has been very approachability has been great as I
experience that I cherished is the interactive. I think the virtual integrate into the company in a
meetings that allocated time for program has been the next best virtual way. Regardless of being
executives and managers to share thing after being able to do all of virtual I feel as though I have
thoughts with us, which made me
feel valued. I know time is our this Sinaprearshon.Nicolas Elizabeth Bauerestablished meaningful
most valuable asset, so when their
time is given to us it makes me feel The team at PayPal connections.
continues to
Yanhong Wanglike a worthy asset. Although we meet in the special
impress me every year, we have the VIP experience
When the internship was day and exceed any that the PayPal university program
announced to be virtual, I was provides for us. Virtual seems we
skeptical about working expectation that have distance, but we never
remotely. But, when I started I could've had at disconnect. Live section, team
working with the team, I was meeting, virtual activities gather
amazed by the kind of support I the start! more people together. We meet a
received from everyone in my lot of mentors who work in PayPal
team. I was really lucky to get a Marty Steyn gave us advice. Yes, It is
Rick as not only as my manager but disappointing that we can
also as a mentor and guide, Thank you University Teams for the not reach the real office to shake
amazing swag package!! It and you hands with our folks, but we are not
Amar Saurabhthroughout the internship. all are greatly appreciated for all loosed anything. The whole PayPal
your work to make this experience 2020 summer Inter program
Thanks University team for provides more to us. As one of the
supporting international this summer the best it can be! Interns, I very enjoy all the topics
students So lucky to a part of and progress this program led to
Sydney Andreasen me. I am enjoying and will keep
PayPal Laveena Kottwani continuing to enjoy the work I am
Yanhong Wangdoing in PayPal. Go PayPal.
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I feel super well communicated with all the time. I love and appreciate all of the emails,
Slack messages, and Teams calls & events & programs organized by Melissa and the
University Experience Team. Orientation was a super fun couple days for me. And the
swag in the mail is super fun & I appreciate it a lot. Also, my hiring manager and team
are fantastic with communication - it is great. For being so far apart, I feel like I know
everyone on my team pretty well. And I really enjoy the company of my team always,
everyone is so cool.I also want to put a huge, huge shout-out for diversity & inclusion
forums and communications. Those have been so, so needed, and listening was
great. These conversations are not easy and need to keep happening, however they
always feel so therapeutic to me. PayPal’s diversity & inclusion efforts, and mission in
service of people and communities, both over the long term, is amazing. Anyhow, no
one expected to be working at their mom’s house this summer, yet here we are. While I
miss being able to go into a PayPal office or meeting anyone in person, I am super
grateful for all the virtual connections. In fact - I might even say that a lot of us interns,
we get to see more of each other because we are all kind of in the same virtual
office. That is a silver lining. One thing about COVID-19 is that I think it is easy to make
the comparison from now to 8 or 12 months ago. But the true comparison is now
compared to what now would be like if we were not able to work at home. And the
truth is, as tough as it is to work from home and be isolated in that way, we are lucky to
be able to work at home because it is much more safe & better for others right now.
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WEEK 12
PAYPAL PAVILION
AWARDS & FAREWELLS
At the end of each intern season, we highlight all the great
work our interns do at the PayPal Expo Intern Showcase. This
year is no different, except we went virtual! Interns created a
90 second promotional video and flip-books about themselves
and their project for our virtual world. It was an amazing
opportunity for them to show off their accomplishments to
over 35,000 global employees on a new, modern platform.
PayPal 2020 Summer Intern Award Ceremony
Red CarpetOn The