Affirm VO, HM round threw me off a bit
Just wrapped up my Affirm VO last week, still waiting to hear back.
Phone screen was a single coding problem, fintech-flavored stuff. They gave me codepad with 80-100 lines of starter code already written. The problem was about processing loan records and finding parent company hierarchies. Not algorithmically complex, just a lot of map handling and edge cases to catch. Reading through all that starter code before you can even code is the real time sink.
VO was 5 rounds. Coding round had a similar flavor, fraud detection processing with PII data. SD round was designing an A/B testing platform. Interviewer stayed pretty quiet, not much back and forth. Past experience round and PM round were both fine. HM round is where I'm less sure I did well. They asked "how do you approach X" type questions rather than STAR format. Felt awkward.
Still pending. Fingers crossed.
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The codepad with 100 lines of starter code is so real. I spent like 15 minutes just reading before writing a single line. Felt like a reading test more than coding.
Did you get any feedback on the phone screen? Curious how much the edge cases mattered in your case.
Had a similar experience with the HM round. The "how do you approach" questions threw me too, felt less structured than I expected. Hope you get good news.
Same here. I prepped all STAR and then they just asked open-ended how questions the whole time. Ended up rambling a bit.
Hi, For the PII data problem, what did the problem look like? Also, how did you approach correcting the incorrect method? For the second problem, was it about matching transactions to fraud events? I tried looking for patterns but couldn't find any clues. Thank you in advance!
A/B testing platform SD seems to come up there pretty often from what I've seen. Good luck, hope they get back to you soon.