Guidewire

Software Engineer Interview Experience - Ireland

June 3, 2020

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

A 30-minute phone screen with a recruiter was followed by a 2-hour Codility exam. I scored 75% on the Codility exam, only to receive an automated rejection email a few days later. This reflects poorly on their recruitment process, making a candidate submit so much time and receive no constructive feedback.

Questions

Codility Exam

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 14 interview experiences for the Guidewire Software Engineer role in Ireland.

Success Rate

21%

Pass Rate

Guidewire's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Ireland is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral29%

Negative21%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Guidewire's Software Engineer interview process in Ireland.

Guidewire Work Experiences

Good place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Kraków, Poland

Pros: Really good and friendly environment. A lot of benefits compared to other companies in Krakow.

Cons: Sometimes, poor decisions are made by management.

Good place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Kraków, Poland

Pros: Really good and friendly environment. A lot of benefits compared to other companies in Krakow.

Cons: Sometimes, poor decisions are made by management.

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.

The company is great

Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Mateo, California, United States

Pros: People are nice, and the company environment is very great.

Cons: Some people are nice and tough.

The company is great

Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Mateo, California, United States

Pros: People are nice, and the company environment is very great.

Cons: Some people are nice and tough.

Good place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Kraków, Poland

Pros: Really good and friendly environment. A lot of benefits compared to other companies in Krakow.

Cons: Sometimes, poor decisions are made by management.

4.0
Good place to work
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Kraków, Poland
June 25, 2023
Pros: Really good and friendly environment. A lot of benefits compared to other companies in Krakow.
Cons: Sometimes, poor decisions are made by management.

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.

The company is great

Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Mateo, California, United States

Pros: People are nice, and the company environment is very great.

Cons: Some people are nice and tough.

4.0
The company is great
Software Engineer • Former Employee
San Mateo, California, United States
June 14, 2013
Pros: People are nice, and the company environment is very great.
Cons: Some people are nice and tough.

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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