great place to work - Software Engineer Affirm Employee Review

5.0
May 23, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Amazing benefits and compensation * Work from home * Awesome spending wallet on food, tech, lifestyle, health that refreshes monthly * Team culture - everyone is willing to help out and senior leadership are always open to feedback * Great place to gain experience and grow under awesome engineers

Cons

* smaller company, so workload can get kind of heavy at times * a lot of learning by yourself when you first join * documentation heavy on projects - sometimes I feel like multiple project specs(project spec, product spec, tech spec) are unnecessary. having one technical document is enough. * no 401k matching but the other benefits are pretty good so I don't really mind.

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5.0
Jul 11, 2026
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Pros

Great people and great mission,

Cons

Upward mobility becomes limited for director+

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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