I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Affirm (Fremont, CA) in Nov 2024
Interview
HR screen -> 1 hr technical screen -> hm call -> 1.5 hr onsite. The process was swift and the whole process took less than 4 weeks from applying to receiving offer
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Typical LC medium hard along with follow-up questions
1. Intro with recruiter
2. Live coding on hackerank (python) - i has to do with discovering a bug and osrting [ I passed because we ran the tests and all test cases passed]
Yet, I got a rejection mail. What a joke!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In the live coding after passing, "what other edge case will you test for"
First, a standard 30 min screening call with HR. Then 1h live coding with one of their engineers and a nice short chat. Next was 30 min call with 2 managers. We dropped the interview process after this one. I don't know what went wrong here. The managers weren't as friendly as the engineer I talked to previously though - no smile on their faces. I've waited for a week to get some feedback after this stage and they gave me some generic answer, but only after I sent them an email about it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
HR screening: standard "tell me about yourself", "why do you want to work here", etc.
Live coding: implement a method for credit score calculation. Then you expand on it in the 2nd part. No advanced algorithms needed for this. Just read the assignment carefully and pay attention to the edge cases.
Manager round: "describe a challenging project you worked on", "why do you want to work here", "how do you respond to negative and positive feedback"
I applied online. I interviewed at Affirm in Aug 2025
Interview
1. HR call
2. pair programming session. I was told it was going to be a leetcode type problem. but was something completly different, I did the exercise after some corrections (the 2nd task was not well explained and the interviewer did some changes on the code source to correct it). The interviewer told me that, was ok and I will pass. Next week I received an automatical mail as I will not pass to the next stage.
Software Engineer II applicants have rated the interview process at Affirm with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer II roles take an average of 35 days to get hired, when considering 4 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 Software Engineer II according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
Presentation: 22%
Group panel interview: 11%
Skills test: 11%
One on one interview: 11%
Background check: 11%
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