Guidewire

Software Engineer Interview Experience - Foster City, California

April 1, 2010

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

• Wordy puzzle game

• Went over the solution with the interviewer.

• On-site interview, coding about a coffee-vendor machine.

Questions

Wordy puzzle game: Implement two missing classes.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 6 interview experiences for the Guidewire Software Engineer role in Foster City, California.

Success Rate

33%

Pass Rate

Guidewire's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Foster City, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive83%

Neutral0%

Negative17%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Guidewire's Software Engineer interview process in Foster City, California.

Guidewire Work Experiences

Excellent work-life balance with a collaborative work setting

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Foster City, California, United States

November 15, 2013

Pros: Excellent work-life balance. Big on knowledge-sharing and transparency. Big on collaboration and pair-programming. Meaningful and useful intern projects. The walls are whiteboards. The managers care deeply about happiness. Our weeks before a major release don't involve overtime. We have our own open-sourced programming language: Gosu.

Cons: Our technology stack is a little old, unless you're on the Live team. Our main office is in Foster City.

Excellent work-life balance with a collaborative work setting

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Foster City, California, United States

November 15, 2013

Pros: Excellent work-life balance. Big on knowledge-sharing and transparency. Big on collaboration and pair-programming. Meaningful and useful intern projects. The walls are whiteboards. The managers care deeply about happiness. Our weeks before a major release don't involve overtime. We have our own open-sourced programming language: Gosu.

Cons: Our technology stack is a little old, unless you're on the Live team. Our main office is in Foster City.

Going downhill? Incompetent management. Think twice

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Foster City, California, United States

September 16, 2016

Pros: There are a few pros: play the game, play politics, and more. If you are good at it, you will be rewarded and promoted. Some smart engineers. Benefits are okay.

Cons: - Too political. - No recognition for people who work hard and sincerely. * Middle management is incompetent and inconsistent (a bunch of no-do-gooders, honestly). - Polarized environment. - The company's core values, Integrity, Collegiality, and Rationality – gone with the wind. - Boring software, obsolete technologies and architecture. - Looking for direction; absolutely nothing organic.

Going downhill? Incompetent management. Think twice

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Foster City, California, United States

September 16, 2016

Pros: There are a few pros: play the game, play politics, and more. If you are good at it, you will be rewarded and promoted. Some smart engineers. Benefits are okay.

Cons: - Too political. - No recognition for people who work hard and sincerely. * Middle management is incompetent and inconsistent (a bunch of no-do-gooders, honestly). - Polarized environment. - The company's core values, Integrity, Collegiality, and Rationality – gone with the wind. - Boring software, obsolete technologies and architecture. - Looking for direction; absolutely nothing organic.

Good culture, getting big and slow, so-so benefits

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Foster City, California, United States

August 29, 2013

Pros: People are nice. Work is easy.

Cons: Low salary. Benefit average. Less and less great engineers.

Good culture, getting big and slow, so-so benefits

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Foster City, California, United States

August 29, 2013

Pros: People are nice. Work is easy.

Cons: Low salary. Benefit average. Less and less great engineers.

Excellent work-life balance with a collaborative work setting

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Foster City, California, United States

November 15, 2013

Pros: Excellent work-life balance. Big on knowledge-sharing and transparency. Big on collaboration and pair-programming. Meaningful and useful intern projects. The walls are whiteboards. The managers care deeply about happiness. Our weeks before a major release don't involve overtime. We have our own open-sourced programming language: Gosu.

Cons: Our technology stack is a little old, unless you're on the Live team. Our main office is in Foster City.

5.0
Excellent work-life balance with a collaborative work setting
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Foster City, California, United States
November 15, 2013
Pros: Excellent work-life balance. Big on knowledge-sharing and transparency. Big on collaboration and pair-programming. Meaningful and useful intern projects. The walls are whiteboards. The managers care deeply about happiness. Our weeks before a major release don't involve overtime. We have our own open-sourced programming language: Gosu.
Cons: Our technology stack is a little old, unless you're on the Live team. Our main office is in Foster City.

Going downhill? Incompetent management. Think twice

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Foster City, California, United States

September 16, 2016

Pros: There are a few pros: play the game, play politics, and more. If you are good at it, you will be rewarded and promoted. Some smart engineers. Benefits are okay.

Cons: - Too political. - No recognition for people who work hard and sincerely. * Middle management is incompetent and inconsistent (a bunch of no-do-gooders, honestly). - Polarized environment. - The company's core values, Integrity, Collegiality, and Rationality – gone with the wind. - Boring software, obsolete technologies and architecture. - Looking for direction; absolutely nothing organic.

1.0
Going downhill? Incompetent management. Think twice
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Foster City, California, United States
September 16, 2016
Pros: There are a few pros: play the game, play politics, and more. If you are good at it, you will be rewarded and promoted. Some smart engineers. Benefits are okay.
Cons: - Too political. - No recognition for people who work hard and sincerely. * Middle management is incompetent and inconsistent (a bunch of no-do-gooders, honestly). - Polarized environment. - The company's core values, Integrity, Collegiality, and Rationality – gone with the wind. - Boring software, obsolete technologies and architecture. - Looking for direction; absolutely nothing organic.

Good culture, getting big and slow, so-so benefits

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Foster City, California, United States

August 29, 2013

Pros: People are nice. Work is easy.

Cons: Low salary. Benefit average. Less and less great engineers.

4.0
Good culture, getting big and slow, so-so benefits
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Foster City, California, United States
August 29, 2013
Pros: People are nice. Work is easy.
Cons: Low salary. Benefit average. Less and less great engineers.

Guidewire Interview Questions

Construct the Longest New String

You're given counts of 'A', 'B', and 'AB' strings. Combine them to construct the longest possible string where no two adjacent characters are the same.

Greedy Algorithms

Minimum Moves to Spread Stones Over Grid

You're given a grid where some cells have stones and others are empty. Find the minimum number of moves to redistribute the stones so that each cell has exactly one stone.

Minimum Number of Operations to Sort a Binary Tree by Level

You're given a binary tree. Determine the minimum number of swaps needed at each level to sort the node values in ascending order.

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