I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Affirm (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2018
Interview
I was asked to spend a few hours writing a basic app, which consumed a particular API and displayed data in a list. I was then brought onsite. There, I was asked a couple very basic system design questions. They said we would talk about the take home while onsite, and maybe expand on it. That never happened. There was also supposed to be a more technical coding question. The individual who was supposed to conduct it was out sick. Everyone I spoke to was very junior.
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Easy but real-world problem solving stage and an interview with engineering manager, which lasted fifteen minutes - it looked like it was just a courtesy (to satisfy some internal policy requirement perhaps?) since the interviewer wasn’t really interested in anything I had to say. I received a rejection the day after, when asked for feedback I was ghosted
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a project that you worked on
What good/bad feedback did you receive in the past year
He tenido una primera entrevista de toma de contacto y una entrevista de live coding. Ambas entrevistas han sido muy interesantes y sencillas. Los entrevistadores han sido muy amables. El único problema ha sido que en la entrevista de código sí que requieren experiencia “actual” en el lenguaje de la oferta. Como recomendación, si tienes una entrevista en un lenguaje que no estás usando actualmente, dedica una semana a hacer pruebas tipo leetcode en dicho lenguaje, para no tener que pensar en cómo invocar las funciones
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Affirm in Apr 2026
Interview
I applied through their website, recruiter reached out to me. Process contains of initially one technical question, one managerial round and then 4 virtual onsite round. I got rejected in the first round
