Awful co-workers and colleagues. Managers tend to be very political and undermining. Lots of bias and favoritism based on who they like and who brownnoses the most to the executive team - not on direct attributable impact to the business, know-how or hard work. So no- Affirm is NOT a meritocracy but operates on favoritism. Co-workers are also backstabbers - many will lie and steal credit for work you did and then subsequently throw you under the bus. Managers are complicit in this and don't care about unethical behavior so long as its someone they prefer and like benefits or gains. They also tend to be very very insecure if they feel like you know more.
Also had one of my direct reports undermine me once she got re-allocated to a different team. This person was especially incompetent, deficient in skill and lacked basic know-how and I trained her to outperform yet she then said that she was deserving of all credit once she moved to a different team and acted like a complete know-it-all despite knowing very very little. Too bad that I stopped sharing things afterwards that would've benefitted the company and would never ever recommend her or give her a good reference, but this is exactly how Affirm operates - do well for other people and they stab you in the back afterwards for their own benefit/gain. People don't come first - that's a false representation. By "people" they mean me, myself and I.
Funny how even for an analytics team this type of behavior flies and is normalized - an indication of how widespread this type of behavior is at this company. Pay is good but if you want to ruin your mental/physical health and be treated second class daily then work at Affirm and put up with this nonsense. Not sustainable over the long haul at all.
