User-1yvgcAug 2, 2026

Rejected by Affirm after the HM round tanked it

Hack2hire Community · 2026-08-02T06:00:00.171Z

Rejected by Affirm after the HM round tanked it Just got rejected from Affirm after 5 rounds and I'm still annoyed about how it went down, so consider this a heads up if you've got a loop coming up. Phone screen was rough right out the gate. Everything's disguised as business logic instead of actual algorithms, this loan hierarchy problem where you gotta track which parent company a loan rolls up to. Not hard conceptually but there's 100+ lines of starter code you have to parse first and the clo...

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User-1dl5cAug 2, 2026

sorry man that sucks, the reading heavy problems there are no joke either

benhe98Aug 2, 2026

PMI team? that's exactly the team I got matched with too, should've bailed earlier tbh

chloechenAug 2, 2026

yup that's the one, wish I'd known beforehand honestly

nightlen-123Aug 12, 2026

This doesn't sound like the PMI team...

vikramreddy95Aug 2, 2026

HM rounds seem to be the real gatekeeper at a lot of these fintech places, honestly

User-baitwAug 2, 2026

yeah feels like it honestly, no consistent bar

neha91Aug 2, 2026

at least the other 4 rounds went well, that's something

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