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Affirm Software Engineer interview experience

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Posted Jul 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a Senior Software Engineer backend process that was basically a full virtual onsite with five separate one-hour rounds.

The sequence started with a system design challenge framed around designing something like WhatsApp. After that, I did coding that involved a dictionary-style data structure with operations like deleteRandom in constant time.

Next came an interview focused on building and evaluating a decision tree—things like constructing the tree, evaluating it, and modifying a leaf. After that, I shifted into backend systems territory again with a round about RPC over a broadcast queue, covering publish/consume/subscribe behavior. The final piece was a hiring manager behavioral interview.

Even though

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