Developer experience couldn't be worse! - Senior Software Engineer Affirm Employee Review

2.0
Mar 28, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Away days - Company actually cares about the financial wellbeing of their employees - Good severance package during the layoffs

Cons

- Developer experience is the worst I've experienced in my career - far too much to list here and I don't want PTSD - Management is largely clueless, devoid of actual tangible goals and every project/initiative is reactive as opposed to proactive, leading to constantly scrapped and replaced projects - Tons of red tape preventing developers from getting the real beneficial changes done ahead of the product development curve, leading to an ever escalating amount of tech debt

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Cons

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3.0
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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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