Affirm·Software Engineer

Affirm Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

CanadaPosted Nov 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After I moved through the recruiter call and a technical screen that went well, I met with a hiring manager and felt good about that round too.

From there I was invited to a virtual onsite.

The final round was the part that really went sideways for me. The same hiring manager came back for the last stage, but the conversation felt like they didn’t know what else to ask. Meanwhile, the design interviewer kept interrupting me every other sentence, so the discussion couldn’t really flow. On top of that, the coding interviewer made up a question, didn’t seem to clearly communicate what they were looking for, and the way the solution worked out ended up being pretty convoluted, involving deeply nested data structures.

By the end, I felt

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