Affirm Sr. Software Engineer reviews

4.3

85% would recommend to a friend

(30 total reviews)
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Max Levchin

100% approve of CEO

94% positive business outlook

Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Affirm with 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 30 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Affirm is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Financial Services industry (3.6 stars).

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30 reviews
1.0
Apr 9, 2024

Aweful

Recommend
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Pros

Work life balance Salary Decent equipment to work with

Cons

Employees do not trust management or other colleagues, which leads to low morale and a sense of insecurity. There is a lack of open and transparent communication, resulting in misunderstandings, rumors, and a general sense of confusion, mainly due to the secretive nature of the business. Managers often exert excessive control over employees, stifling innovation and great ideas. People I have spoken to often feel undervalued and unappreciated for their contributions. There is a toxic behavior among the legal team and how they are with individuals, sometimes bullying is either tolerated or ignored to achieve a goal. There is a culture of resistance to change, espicially with new members of staff, where ideas are NEVER listened to.

2.0
Nov 20, 2023
Recommend
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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.

4.0
Oct 6, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- You can allocate time to contribute to the project. There is no rush as in startups and no inflexibility like in corporations. - People (other engineers across Affirm and management) is really helpful and supportive. - Everything is remote. This was the first place which did remote onboarding right. Process was well documented, went easy and there was no chaos. - Nice additional budgets for tech, lifestyle and food spending

Cons

Salary could be higher, but compared to bigger corporations lowering salaries in Polish market, it's understandable.

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