Affirm Software Engineer interview experience

But the interviews themselves were a different story for me—I found them genuinely hard in a way that wasn’t like typical LeetCode practice.

What surprised me most was that the difficulty came largely from system design. I realized too late that I hadn’t prepared for that part as well as I thought, and it showed during the interview. Even though I could follow what was being asked, I wasn’t set up to handle the level of system thinking they expected.

I didn’t get an offer. My overall takeaway was that the process was well explained, but the actual interview focus was less familiar to me