Safaricom employees reveal the 5 best things about working for the company
Employees rate the company highly despite the pressure to always perform at the top of your game.
Hundreds of reviews on employment job site, Glassdoor, seem to indicate that Safaricom treats its employees well.
We scoured through a couple of them to find out why people love working at the telecom giant:
Great work environment
"Good working environment with a lot of opportunities to innovate."- former Network Administrator.
"Great working environment plus benefits." - Anonymous.
"A very nice work environment." - former intern.
"Great employer with good working environment in terms of facilities gym creche." - Business Intelligence Engineer.
The company gives good employee benefits
"Great benefits i.e. medical, compensation especially for permanent employees." - Anonymous.
"Overall the company gives good benefits from health coverage, transportation to and from work, team building, bonuses." - former Customer Service Representative.
"The company has good benefits for its employees that include house allowance, medical insurance, and entertainment allowance. The overtime pay is also very good." - Anonymous.
"Best medical scheme, good benefits including car allowance, gym creche, security, home alarm systems, flexible working hours." - Category Sourcing Manager.
Vast opportunities for career growth
"Great opportunities to learn. Having worked at Safaricom, one can work in any environment and comfortably handle the pressure." - Human Resources Officer.
"It is an amazing place to work in especially if you want to learn a lot and develop your career." - Product Manager.
"Safaricom is the leading network company in Kenya which offers good career growth for its staff both professionally and personally." - former Customer Service Representative.
Great organizational/team culture
"100% Human is the culture. The aim it to treat humans as humans and machines as machines." - Anonymous.
"Work culture is good and working atmosphere enjoyable." - Anonymous.
"A great culture is propagated throughout the entire organisation." - Platinum Support Manager.
Technology is up to speed
"Innovative, ambitious, integrity, industry-leading, cutting-edge technology." - former Principal Human Resource Business Partner.
"All the latest technologies have been procured, and as an engineer this really puts ones skills at par with the market." - Anonymous.
"Fully embraced technology making working efficient." - Social Media Analyst.
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