The interview process included:

• Recruiter screen
• Codility test (I stopped the process here)

There was also another live coding round and 3-4 more rounds with the rest of the team and executives.

The recruiter reached out to me, asking if I was interested in applying to Guidewire. To ensure I was, they went into great detail about how Guidewire is a great employer.

I was trying to understand more about the role, and at one point, they mentioned it's a DevOps/automation role. However, in their words, "We changed the title to SE (Cloud) because we weren't getting candidates who can code properly with DevOps titles." Red flag #1.

The recruiter mentioned that the Codility test is the first step and the second one would be a live coding round, as they want to see how "fast I code." This was red flag #2, but I went ahead with the Codility test because I wanted some practice for other interviews, as I wasn't particularly interested in Guidewire.

Before I took the test, they mentioned it's very easy, with one task that usually takes 20 minutes to solve. The Codility test turned out to be a hard LeetCode problem usually asked by Microsoft. Red flag #3.