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Safaricom

Telecommunications company providing mobile, internet and enterprise services in Kenya and Ethiopia, and operator of the M-Pesa mobile money service.

Not known5 stage process documentedFounded 1997
Headquarters

Nairobi, Kenya

Headcount

1,000 to 5,000

1,000 to 4,999 people
Work model

Not known

Hiring

Not known

Not enough signal to say. Check the careers page directly.
Where to apply

No careers page on file yet. Try their LinkedIn or the job boards below.

Website

Ask for a referral to Safaricom

A referral only means something if the person giving it can actually speak to your work. I will refer you where I know someone on the inside and your profile genuinely fits the role, and I will tell you plainly when I cannot. Either way you get an answer, and a straight one.

  • I read every request. A reply takes a few days, sometimes longer.
  • I will not refer someone for a role their profile does not fit. It wastes your time and costs me the contact.
  • Where I cannot refer you, I will say why, and point you at the way in that does work.
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Comma separated, up to six. Things you would be happy to be tested on.

How they hire

Safaricom says the shape varies by role and some recruitments use assessment centres. Candidate reports put the whole process at around a month or longer.

  1. 1

    Online coding test

    Reported
    Online testRemote

    Engineering applicants report a timed coding assessment on Codility before any interview.

    Coding
  2. 2

    Phone interview

    Official
    Recruiter screenRemote

    Safaricom says most recruitments open with a phone interview to check interest on both sides.

  3. 3

    Technical interview with engineers

    Reported
    Technical interviewRemote

    A video interview with Safaricom developers, reported by software engineering candidates. Some recorded interviews run on HireVue.

  4. 4

    Interview with the hiring manager and team

    Official
    Panel interview

    The company describes a face to face interview with the hiring manager and some teammates or stakeholders. Some roles use an assessment centre instead.

  5. 5

    Reference and background checks, then decision

    Official
    Offer

    Safaricom completes reference and background checks after interviewing all shortlisted candidates and aims to decide within a few weeks.

What comes up

Recurring themes from candidate accounts, not a question bank. Nobody is served by leaked question lists, least of all you in the interview.

  • Algorithmic coding under a timer

    Reported

    The Codility test is the first filter for engineering roles, so expect standard data structure and algorithm problems scored automatically.

  • Fit with the team and stakeholders

    Official

    The later interview is with the hiring manager and future teammates, so questions lean towards how you work with others as well as what you know.

Worth reading before you apply

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Abdul Bari (YouTube channel)

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  • Programming
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What it pays

Nothing collected for this company yet, and nothing worth guessing at. A made-up range is worse than no range because people negotiate against it.

Add to the Safaricom page

This library is only as good as what people who have been through it are willing to share. Most of these companies have no hiring process documented anywhere, and one account of what the rounds actually were is worth more than anything I can research from the outside.

What are you adding?

This decides how the claim is labelled on the page. Only someone representing the company can produce an “official” label, and I check that separately.

Year and month.

Comma separated topics, not the questions themselves.

Round by round is ideal: what each one was, how long, remote or in person, and what it covered.

Credit

Anonymous is the default. If you keep it anonymous, nothing identifying you reaches the page: it is published as a candidate account and your name stays with me. Never send anything covered by an NDA, and never send a take-home or a question paper.

Universities they recruit from

No sourced university links yet. A campus drive, a career fair appearance or an internship partnership is what puts a university here.

Add to the Safaricom page

This library is only as good as what people who have been through it are willing to share. Most of these companies have no hiring process documented anywhere, and one account of what the rounds actually were is worth more than anything I can research from the outside.

What are you adding?

This decides how the claim is labelled on the page. Only someone representing the company can produce an “official” label, and I check that separately.

Year and month.

Comma separated topics, not the questions themselves.

Round by round is ideal: what each one was, how long, remote or in person, and what it covered.

Credit

Anonymous is the default. If you keep it anonymous, nothing identifying you reaches the page: it is published as a candidate account and your name stays with me. Never send anything covered by an NDA, and never send a take-home or a question paper.

How to actually get seen

Practise timed problems on Codility style platforms before applying, since the online test comes first. Keep your application profile up to date, as Safaricom only contacts candidates it is moving forward with.

Sources

Whole profile last checked 2026-09-22.

Interviewed at Safaricom? Fill in what changed.

Processes change, rounds get added, tests get replaced. If what you went through was different from what is on this page, tell me and I will update it.

Want me to refer you here?

Send me the role, your CV and a few honest paragraphs on why you fit it. Where I know someone inside and your profile matches, I will make the introduction. Where I cannot, I will tell you why and point you at the route that does work. You get an answer either way.

Ask for a referral to Safaricom

A referral only means something if the person giving it can actually speak to your work. I will refer you where I know someone on the inside and your profile genuinely fits the role, and I will tell you plainly when I cannot. Either way you get an answer, and a straight one.

  • I read every request. A reply takes a few days, sometimes longer.
  • I will not refer someone for a role their profile does not fit. It wastes your time and costs me the contact.
  • Where I cannot refer you, I will say why, and point you at the way in that does work.
  • Nothing you send here is shared with anyone without you agreeing to it first.

If you found the opening, paste it. It tells me which team you mean.

A Drive, Dropbox or personal-site link is fine. Make sure it opens without a request for access, or I cannot read it.

At least a short paragraph. This is what I would be putting my name behind, so specifics beat adjectives.

Comma separated, up to six. Things you would be happy to be tested on.

Add to the Safaricom page

This library is only as good as what people who have been through it are willing to share. Most of these companies have no hiring process documented anywhere, and one account of what the rounds actually were is worth more than anything I can research from the outside.

What are you adding?

This decides how the claim is labelled on the page. Only someone representing the company can produce an “official” label, and I check that separately.

Year and month.

Comma separated topics, not the questions themselves.

Round by round is ideal: what each one was, how long, remote or in person, and what it covered.

Credit

Anonymous is the default. If you keep it anonymous, nothing identifying you reaches the page: it is published as a candidate account and your name stays with me. Never send anything covered by an NDA, and never send a take-home or a question paper.

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