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Affirm Software Engineer interview experience

Posted May 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through an early-career style process that started with a recruiter call, then a one-hour coding round with an SWE II using CodePair.

The coding portion included a fifteen-minute project discussion first, and then I worked on finding the shortest unique substring. After that, we talked through optimization verbally.

It felt like the process was designed around both narrative and execution: we connected the coding task to what I’d been doing, and then we focused on improving the approach.

I didn’t get an offer, and my reflection was that the optimization part was a real test of whether I could think beyond the first working solution quickly.

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