Affirm·Software Engineer

Affirm Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

SpainPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My coding interview went really well, so when I moved into the hiring manager 30-minute interview, I expected a normal follow-through.

Instead, it ended up being the worst experience I’d had in any interview loop.

The interviewer didn’t seem to care about what I was saying—there was a lot of distraction and the interaction felt like it wasn’t attentive. I talked through an answer after spending several minutes on it, and when I finished, the response was basically just a quick acknowledgment before moving to the next question.

I didn’t get the offer, and I never really understood why that manager interview went that way. The technical portion wasn’t the problem—how I was engaged with during the manager conversation was.

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