A true rest and vest company - Software Engineer Affirm Employee Review

3.0
Oct 19, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

WLB is unbeatable. Team specific but 40hr/week is the norm

Cons

Culture is very complacent. Widely acknowledged pain-points are never addressed and team retros feel like deja-vu. Development is very slow

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5.0
Jul 11, 2026
Recommend
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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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