Not going in right direction - Senior Software Engineer PayFast Employee Review

1.0
Sep 12, 2025
Recommend
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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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3.0
Jan 17, 2026
Recommend
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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.

2.0
Oct 24, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Benefits - Nice office location

Cons

- Toxic culture - Politics run rife - No autonomy - Lack of local regional understanding from parent company - Rigid and a lot of red tape - Silo'd teams

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