Affirm new grad frontend, team-pooled hiring.
In theory there are five rounds: HR + coding + HM + coding + HM. I was told I was rejected when I got to the first HM round, so I don't know what the rest of the process looks like.
HR screen: 15 minutes, camera off. Self-intro, why Affirm, why frontend, how comfortable I am with React, walking through my projects, career goals. At the end they went over the rest of the interview process and told me there is only one headcount since it's pooled hiring.
Coding: 1 hour. The interviewer was really nice. The problem wasn't LeetCode, it was more like a real project: I had to build several features in TS/JS, both frontend and backend, and at the end I just ran it and showed the web page preview.
HM: In theory it was 30 minutes, but he showed up 10 minutes late and it ended almost 20 minutes over, and I almost missed the last train. He asked about one internship project and some implementation details, a few standard BQs like challenge / feedback / collaboration, and what I think about AI. Halfway through I already felt the vibe wasn't something I liked. He wasn't even listening while I answered the BQs, he was like a machine reading out BQ questions. I almost told him let's just call it here and stop the interview...
After the interview I heard nothing for a week. When I asked the recruiter, they replied instantly to say I had been rejected.
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