Affirm·Software Engineer

Affirm Software Engineer interview experience

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Posted May 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I solved the live-coding problem fairly easily, but I still didn’t move forward.

The feedback I got was that they felt I didn’t ask enough clarifying questions.

So even though I was able to implement the solution, they were grading the communication process—how I interpreted the problem and confirmed requirements—rather than just correctness.

I left the experience thinking about how much weight they put on clarifying early, because that detail ended up being the reason for rejection.

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