Affirm interview notes, page 1 of 4

“The grouping part was fine, nested maps are pretty mechanical once you stop overthinking the key structure.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Affirm, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The format threw me a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Affirm, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is the whole interview, basically.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Affirm, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is the core of the whole round.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Affirm, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Pretty much a hash-map accumulation problem.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Affirm, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The problem itself isn't algorithmically hard.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Affirm, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The classic combo of a hashmap and a doubly linked list.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Affirm, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was to write something flexible that could handle any grouping key, which was the wrong move.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Affirm, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one took me a second to get organized.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Affirm, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with the assignment layer and worked outward, but I think I underweighted the metrics collection side.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Affirm, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.