Needs improvement - Anonymous employee SAOTA Employee Review

4.0
10 Jun 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Full remote work. Massive learning opportunity and growth. Very diverse work. Some members of my team are greatly supportive. Great exposure to luxury projects.

Cons

Overtime, overtime and more overtime. Very high staff turnover. Verbal abuse from directors. Feels less like a team and more like “fending for yourself” (marketing team). Because of high staff turnover and large amounts of work, the people who stay have to pick up the slack, and are generally burnt out, overloaded or distressed.

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1.0
22 May 2026
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Pros

- Work from Home (If that’s your vibe) - The new underlings are cool, until they assimilate. You can spot them by the brown on their noses. - You don’t have to worry about designing anything or making any decisions, because your boss or the director will do that for you. - Copy and Paste designs, easy work! (A lot… but easy!) - Free instant coffee in the canteen. - Some of your overtime is Paid for, yay… but then it’s also capped, boo. (Sometimes you don’t make the minimum needed to be paid for any overtime lol) - No more boring nights and weekends without work to do, SAOTA has you covered. - International Projects without any need to do technical stuff, so fun, but makes finding your new job in South Africa quite tricky. - You play the important role of cog in the machine. - You get 3 burnout leave days a year that they’ve branded as “special leave”.

Cons

- Salary growth is extremely slow. - Absolutely no autonomy, Don’t you even dare think. - The design phase is all set systems and process based, no space for originality.

1
5.0
11 Feb 2026
Recommend
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Pros

job security, cool projects, generally healthy environment

Cons

long hours, paid overtime, but expected

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