Affirm Software Engineer interview experience

What stood out to me was how the final round felt like it wasn’t respecting the candidates’ time. I kept getting the sense that the engineers didn’t really want to be delivering the interview.

Altogether, I ended up spending nearly eight hours doing interviews, only to be rejected at the end. It left me feeling disrespected, not because the questions were unfair, but because the time commitment was huge for the final result.

While I was practicing string manipulation for the technical rounds, the experience itself still felt off—especially knowing I’d invested that much time. I didn’t