I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Affirm (Austin, TX) in Aug 2025
Interview
The Affirm Recruiter reached out and explained the process that had 4 rounds, 1-1 problem solving (generally a classic leetcode style in a language of your choice), hiring manager round, systems design round, and virtual onsite round with other senior team members.
The interviewer was nice and professional. She offered help whenever I got stuck in the 1 hour coding round. Although I was able to resolve the problem in the end, there wasn't enough time left for her to ask additional follow up questions extending the problem.
It could depend on the level of the role you are interviewing but I suggest to brush up your data structure basics instead of going into medium or hard leetcode problems.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement a data-structure that supports dictionary operations, get, put, delete, along with a special operation get_random_val; this latter function should return a uniformly random value sampled from all the values in the dictionary. Each function should run in constant time, with the exception of delete, which for this part we relax to linear time.
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
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%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Drug test: 4%
Other: 3%
Personality test: 3%
Background check: 3%
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