Good company - challenging & lots of experience gained - Anonymous employee PayFast Employee Review

4.0
5 July 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Good teams with hearts in the right places - Interesting projects which gives a large amount of experience and skills - Getting to collaborate with many different departments in the business both through product launches and through active intervention by management to set up collaboration sessions / group strategy sessions / coffee connects. The move towards greater transparency and collaboration has been taken quite seriously and is felt throughout the business - Fair management practices - Increased company-wide benefits in the past year

Cons

- You'll likely work on something that no one will explain to you and it will take you a few months to be comfortable doing what you're working on, even if you're super quick at learning. No one has time to train you or teach you what you're doing - which is kind of hard. - If you're not driven, you're not going to fit in.

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3.0
17 Jan 2026
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CEO approval
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Pros

Fair compensation and benefits. Ability learn and grow if you work well under pressure.

Cons

Constant change with poor communication.

1.0
12 Sept 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great people to work with. PayFast used to be an amazing company to work for but after key people left and was bought over 3 times it has no resemblance of what it once was.

Cons

Management lacks transparency (say's one thing but does another), blames developers for poor planning and delivery (where devs was not part of or not listened to by management/product), lack of professionalism, lack of vision, lack of trust and lack of overall incentive. I could go on and on.

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