Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Affirm with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 51% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 24 days to get hired, when considering 39 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Affirm overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Affirm as a Senior Software Engineer according to 39 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 30%
One on one interview: 25%
Group panel interview: 10%
Skills test: 9%
Presentation: 8%
Drug test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Personality test: 3%
Background check: 3%
Other: 3%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Affirm in Nov 2021
Interview
Interview started with two phone screens, one take home project, and a 5-6hr interview panel on zoom consisting for a take home project walkthrough, two system design interviews, a hiring manager interview, and a product interview. Total process took about 2 weeks to schedule and to hear back for a decision. The whole process was super smooth sailing and the recruiters were communicative throughout the whole thing.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What does diversity and inclusion mean to you?
Describe a time where you lead a project and ran into issues.
Easy but real-world problem solving stage and an interview with engineering manager, which lasted fifteen minutes - it looked like it was just a courtesy (to satisfy some internal policy requirement perhaps?) since the interviewer wasn’t really interested in anything I had to say. I received a rejection the day after, when asked for feedback I was ghosted
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a project that you worked on
What good/bad feedback did you receive in the past year
He tenido una primera entrevista de toma de contacto y una entrevista de live coding. Ambas entrevistas han sido muy interesantes y sencillas. Los entrevistadores han sido muy amables. El único problema ha sido que en la entrevista de código sí que requieren experiencia “actual” en el lenguaje de la oferta. Como recomendación, si tienes una entrevista en un lenguaje que no estás usando actualmente, dedica una semana a hacer pruebas tipo leetcode en dicho lenguaje, para no tener que pensar en cómo invocar las funciones
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Affirm in Apr 2026
Interview
I applied through their website, recruiter reached out to me. Process contains of initially one technical question, one managerial round and then 4 virtual onsite round. I got rejected in the first round