Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Safaricom with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 53.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Safaricom overall takes an average of 44 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Safaricom as a Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 100%
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1st stage is codility, 2nd stage is with the hiring team, and lastly the HR. The HR interview is mainly behavioural. The hiring team which will be tech in this case will mainly center around System Design.
I applied online. I interviewed at Safaricom (Nairobi) in Feb 2025
Interview
The process was fairly easy and straightforward. They sent a link to my email that took me to a codility site. The test consisted of some DSA questions and also had some practical code that you had to read and see if there was anything wrong with the code and state if so.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is a linked list and can it be reversed, and if so how?
Simple, did it online. Only one round of interviews. Lasted about an hour with a 5 team members. They got back to me after a month. Most of the questions were technical.