Has become the most toxic company due to leadership - Analytics Lead Affirm Employee Review

1.0
Jul 18, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay and good benefits, and overall interesting work

Cons

Leadership at all levels is the most toxic and politically-focused I have ever experienced. When I was first hired, the leadership in place actually valued and listened to their employees, but changes over the last 2 years have seen almost all of those people get fired or quit due to the new leadership. Current leadership (particularly Directors and VPs) believe they are the smartest people in the room because they are in positions of leadership, when in reality they would not cut it at all at any other company at their level, and it feels like they are only there due to tenure and playing the political game in order to get promoted. They are not making the right decisions from a business standpoint, and are constantly cutting down their employees and disregarding their input. You walk away from a meeting feeling like you cannot do your job. Overall it has become the most toxic and demoralizing workplace I have ever been a part of, yet everyone feels stuck because the pay and benefits are too good.

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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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