Serious, fulfilling work - Software Engineer Affirm Employee Review

5.0
Oct 27, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Leadership knows their stuff and do a great job coordinating teams. Extremely high bar for hiring. Exciting product that makes a real impact in people's lives outside of the valley. No end to the amount of interesting problems that need solving, regardless of what function of the business you're in.

Cons

The high bar for hiring means we often don't grow teams as fast as we'd like. The business is so mature and complex at this point, and so many different improvements are happening in parallel, that it's no longer something you can fully wrap your head around if you're not an exec; you have to trust your peers are doing their piece of the puzzle in cross-functional departments (finance, engineering, operations, etc).

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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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