Fast Paced and Rewarding - Software Engineer Affirm Employee Review

5.0
Apr 4, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

- You get to work with industry experts, with specializations ranging from Finance, Business Development, Sales, Engineering and Data Science. - Extremely quick iteration time, and very rewarding work (you get to help customers understand credit on a day to day basis) - The leadership team is extremely competent and has a lot of experience founding and running fin tech companies. - The challenges that arise from working with money are interesting to solve and have small to non-existent margins or error. As a result the work you deliver is of consistently high quality. - The management is very open and vocal with employees about business decisions. - Competitive pay and benefits

Cons

- Working for any startup has some volatility associated with it, as your performance is somewhat pegged to the market - Dealing with fraudulent users/accounts.

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5.0
Jul 16, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Supportive team, great benefits and transparent leadership.

Cons

Role can be specific which may prevent you from working on other areas / with other teams as easily.

3.0
Jul 14, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Affirm has a lot of talented engineers and high impact, interesting products to work on. The company is remote first and I traveled abroad for a few weeks a year while working.

Cons

Most of the projects were under tight deadlines which put a lot of stress on the engineers. Management didn't really understand what was required of engineers for many of the projects which made it difficult for them to communicate the team's needs upward. My team was short staffed for senior and staff engineers so techincal leadership was also lacking.

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