The process took over two months.
I interviewed with several people, about 4-5 in total, and went onsite for a formal interview. The recruiter who originally contacted me quit and I was contacted by an entirely new recruiter prior to my onsite interview. They explained that HR was going through changes.
Red flags appeared when the recruiter couldn’t get his time zones correct. I waited several minutes before deciding to email the recruiter to ask if we should reschedule. We rescheduled and spoke on the phone that same day to discuss the position and next steps.
The onsite interviewer was great; I felt we connected. In fact, he reminded me of my manager as an IT intern.
Finally, after my onsite interview at the Bedford, MA office, I sent a thank you email to the recruiter. There was literally no response. I followed up via email and managed to schedule a follow-up phone call with the recruiter. Again, he couldn’t get his time zones correct. I spent several minutes waiting before emailing the recruiter to reschedule for that same day.
We spoke on the phone, and he asked how the interview went. I explained that I white-boarded and was provided a small technical test. This was an entry-level role, and the department was willing to teach and allow the person to develop, as explained by the recruiter and onsite interviewer.
As the phone call progressed, the recruiter mentioned he was meeting with the hiring team that same day. This is a larger company, so the hiring may be slow – or so I thought. This recruiter, based in California at HQ, gave me the runaround for several weeks. He responded via email to my follow-ups twice and even answered my phone call to explain he hadn’t met with the hiring team. Before reaching out to the recruiter each time, I allowed one or two weeks to go by.
Most recently, he decided to ignore my email. To be honest, after two weeks, I expected I didn’t get the job. Please, have the decency to let me know if I didn’t get the job. Why waste my time by lying and prolonging the process?
In the end, I’ve had a horrible experience with this company and their hiring process. It was very disorganized and unprofessional. I’m perplexed as to why the reviews are so great because they seem to treat their job candidates poorly. Maybe I was just treated wrong.
Personally, I wouldn’t recommend it.
All questions asked pertained mostly to my resume and listed job experience.
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Guidewire Cloud Operations Engineer role in Bedford, Massachusetts.
Guidewire's interview process for their Cloud Operations Engineer roles in Bedford, Massachusetts is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Guidewire's Cloud Operations Engineer interview process in Bedford, Massachusetts.