- This was a 1 hour Technical + Managerial interview scheduled with a Software Engineering Hiring Manager at Affirm.
- The Manager was amiable and it was a nice experience overall.
- Firstly, the manager gave me a short introduction to his background and the technology stack he works on at Affirm. Likewise, I shared a little about my experience and projects.
- He then asked me a few questions on my recent internship which was mainly related to Python and LLM’s. He also asked me to share about any project that I have built from scratch. I shared about a full-stack web application that I built during my academia.
- My project was mainly on Angular, Node.js, Flask and AWS. He asked me multiple questions on why I chose a particular technology for a problem and why not the other one. I was also asked about the scalability of the project and how I managed to deploy it.
- Later on, he asked me a few leadership questions, questions about my strengths and weaknesses.
- Lastly, he allowed me to ask any questions and here I asked him about the technology stack his team uses and what challenges are they facing currently. He gave satisfactory answers to every question and the interview concluded.
Affirm Interview Experience For Software Engineer