I applied online. I interviewed at Affirm in Nov 2024
Interview
Applied online. Had a recruiter interview followed by technical screen, which went well. Then a hiring manager which also went well and I was moved to the virtual onsite. The final round was frustrating. The same hiring manger from the first round was assigned to the final round. He was lost and didn't know what else to ask. The engineer who conducted the design interview wouldn't let me talk. He kept interrupting me every other word, so the design couldn't flow. The interviewer who conducted the coding interview made up his own question, but I don't think he ever tried to solve the question himself. He was not able to clearly communicate what he was looking for and the actual solution for the problem was very convoluted and would require managing deeply nested data structures. The question was not appropriate for a coding interview at all. Overall a negative experience. Affirm, please train your engineers on how to conduct interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about the most challenging project you have worked on.
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