It was an amazing place to work until the merge. - Anonymous employee PayFast Employee Review

4.0
Feb 18, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Growth and a sense of family. People you could trust when it came to times when your back was against the wall.

Cons

All the people who were retrenched deserved so much better. The way things are now, loyalty is a swear word and forbidden, and the execs will steal the milk out of your coffee and still sharpen the knife in front of you before stabbing you in the back.

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3.0
Jan 17, 2026
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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
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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