Excessive push for burnout with little to no recognition - Senior Software Engineer Affirm Employee Review

2.0
Nov 20, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Opportunity to lead and grow on teams handling non-legacy code and projects

Cons

- Excessive push for unrealistic deadlines with terribly under scoped projects. - 5 team members spread between multiple projects with little to no members working on the same one. On top of that, many random asks, tasks, and questions. - Legacy codebase is over engineered, spaghetti, and breaking every other hour making development a slog. - Had no say in what the team wanted to work on when we were reorged into maintaining and being a dumpster for legacy code and tools they don't want to work on anymore. - No leadership and management does not seem to care about burnout and disengagement until almost everyone is ready to coast or leave dropping productivity. - Benefits and days off are being cut or dwindling to that of any other company and worse than some in some aspects to decrease spends and increase stock value.

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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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