Affirm reviews

Designer leadership is lacking, not only on does it lack experience, it lacks to understand on how to function with other departments, design isn't customer or user centric, and are unable to elaborate why a decision is made. There were constant arguments between departments and instead of looking for a solution, design leadership was more interested on who was right and who talked the loudest. When it comes to design decisions there was no reasoning behind it, it was always "This looks cool" or "this design doesn't represent ME" — this is coming from my direct supervisor. They don't care about customers/users experience, designers are supposed to do what their managers say w/o questioning w/o reasoning because if managers were to answer "Why" the whole team would quickly see their plans are self-serving and superficial. The Design Leadership is joke here. It's a great start for junior designers, but if you are more senior and are looking to improve your design skills and thinking.... I highly recommend not coming here. This was by far the worst job I've had.

My whole team got laid off due to poor planning and vision for the sales team. They laid my team off because of not hitting their quota, and they did so in phases and I was one of the last to go because I was the only person on my team who had never missed quota. I had almost a whole month of "limbo". I didn't have a job anymore so my time was spent trying to find a job internally. My experience interviewing with different teams was honestly terrible. I could tell that everyone I interviewed with had already made their mind up before they had even spoken to me. So every conversation was very awkward, unhelpful and eventually they just became humiliating. They eventually laid me off, and out of the 50+ people in my department, only a couple people reached out to me after I had gotten let go to see how I was feeling. Mind you, I thought all of these people were not just my coworkers, but friends. The hardest thing about all of this is that Affirm preaches transparency and inclusion, yet I couldn't have gotten a treatment that was more opposite. I'm tired of tech companies lying through their teeth about values and not actually living them out. Their version of inclusion centers around blowing money on lavish treats after work, fancy team dinners and "cool" parties. And maybe you're reading this and thinking, "This girls sounds bitter!"... You're darn right I am. I have had wonderful experiences in the tech industry, some of my best friends are former coworkers and I've been promoted due to killing quota. So I know that how I was treated at Affirm is not a reflection of the stellar work I gave to them.