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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Feb 25, 2022
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at Affirm in Feb 2022

      Interview

      Call with the hiring manager, talking about culture, the team that is being hired for, and asking general questions about technical experience. A choice of an online technical screen, a take-home challenge, or an extended on-site interview. I chose the online technical screen, which was ~1 hr of "whiteboard" coding on a browser IDE with an engineer. Problem was an algorithm problem followed up with performance/use case questions, with a twist in requirements added at the end that requires a slight redesign. Language agnostic and very casual. Use of google for syntax lookup or whatever else was expressly allowed up front. This was followed by an "on-site" full day interview. There was no coding portion during this on-site, but I suspect there would have been if I had opted out of the previous tech-screen. Over the course of the day there were around 6 interviews. One was a project walkthrough, in which you give a deep-dive presentation then discuss technical/implementation process details of a past project. Two were System Design interviews where you whiteboard out the systems that would power a specific service, and design the endpoints/response shape. The rest were general technical background interviews and culture based conversations.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Design an API that would power a Venmo like application where users can send each other money.
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Design a system that allows users to make payments to a bank at any time, when the bank is only open a few hours a day.
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Write an algorithm to determine if two strings are an anagram of each other.
      Answer question
      14

      Other Senior Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Affirm

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Jun 5, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Warsaw, Masovia
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Affirm (Warsaw, Masovia)

      Interview

      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
      Answer question
      1

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Apr 26, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Madrid
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Affirm (Madrid)

      Interview

      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

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Apr 15, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      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

      Affirm interviews FAQs

      • Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Affirm with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 51% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 24 days to get hired, when considering 39 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Affirm overall takes an average of 26 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at Affirm as a Senior Software Engineer according to 39 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Phone interview:  30%

        One on one interview:  25%

        Group panel interview:  10%

        Skills test:  9%

        Presentation:  8%

        Drug test:  4%

        IQ intelligence test:  4%

        Personality test:  3%

        Other:  3%

        Background check:  3%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

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