Recruiter call and technical interview. Recruiter call was basic. 30 min call discussing salary, work type(remote), what i would be doing. Technical interview was pretty simple, not too difficult, dictionary data structure application question
I applied online. I interviewed at Affirm (New York, NY) in Jan 2026
Interview
had a phone screen then technical screen. was a two parted question where you had to implement a class. not too difficult but interviewer was not helpful and the coding platform made it hard to debug code
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
implement a function that rearranged a dictionary of parent to child companies to find topmost parent company easily.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Affirm in Jan 2025
Interview
Recruiter reached out to me on Linkedin and encouraged me to apply. Had behavioural scheduled for Jan 2nd but got postponed by recruiter by two weeks (Jan 14th behavioural) Regardless, I got moved forward to technical. Two days before my technical interview, behavioural recruiter tells me that only one spot is remaining and that it's in data infrastructure team and ask if I wanted to back out. I thought it was weird, but I decided to go ahead. My technical went well and my interviewer thought so too; I had a leetcode medium which I solved successfully but got rejected with feedback from behavioural interviewer that I "didn't solve it quickly enough" though only had 30 minutes to solve.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Solve Shortest uncommon substring problem in preferred language