Great startup with inspiring mission - Product Manager Affirm Employee Review

5.0
May 15, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Affirm is a mission-driven company that genuinely wants to improve the lives of people through honest, transparent financial products. The company has a highly experienced leadership team that includes co-founder and CEO Max Levchin. They are mature hands but also passionate about what the company's trying to do. Affirm has attracted smart people who care deeply about the mission and want to do right by both its customers and colleagues within the company.

Cons

Affirm is experiencing some of the challenges that are common to rapidly growing startups such as communicating at scale and making sure the culture evolves yet stays true to the core values of the company. That said, I've been impressed by the desire of the company to have honest, and at times difficult, conversations about how we could do better and to solicit direct feedback, both good and bad, from the everyone.

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5.0
Jul 16, 2026
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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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