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User-621ewSep 7, 2026

Affirm phone screen, no idea how it went

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Affirm phone screen, no idea how it went

YOE: 4

Phone screen was the fraud detector problem. Part 1 was debugging a PII counter that was missing the event type filter. Part 2 was building the actual detector that flags suspicious events and carries the PII forward into the suspicious set.

Finished both parts with time left, explained my approach as I went.

No word back yet, it has been about a week. Anyone know their usual timeline?

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User-9yzthSep 7, 2026

hope it works out, affirm ghosted me for like three weeks last time so brace yourself

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User-sqvsmSep 7, 2026

fraud detector question again huh, feels like half the posts here are that one

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User-qmqb2Sep 7, 2026

did they give you the starter code or did you have to write the pii counter from scratch

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noahdavis8264Sep 7, 2026

starter code was there already, just had a bug in the event type filter i had to find first

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User-p0bu7Sep 7, 2026

usually takes about a week for affirm, sometimes longer if the team is slow

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noahdavis8264Sep 7, 2026

good to know, this is my second time going through their process so hoping it moves faster this round

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