Pros: Healthy culture, great benefits. The working mode is hybrid, with flexible working hours, friendly colleagues, and supportive superiors. Essentially, you will feel very comfortable and productive working at Guidewire. Your main focus will be on the work and the development for yourself and your team. Whenever there is a blocker, your superior or anyone else is always reachable for help. From a software engineering perspective, Guidewire adopts the best possible practices and technologies for their products and developments. Essentially, you will learn and find many things that are rarely needed in a smaller company.

Cons: Many internal tools at Guidewire are meant for internal use. Your experience using those tools may not be relevant when searching for your next career opportunity. Guidewire's ecosystem is enormous and diverse. It is not easy to pick up everything during your first six months in the company, especially when you are responsible for developing and shipping the product to the customer. The career opportunities to advance can be competitive because the pool is simply too small for so many candidates who are generally good and equally qualified.

Pros: Great work-life balance and nice office space. 8 mandatory office days per month. Great colleagues. Great benefits: * Medical * Dental * Optical * Wellness * Mobile Phone * Home Internet

Cons: Salary from above market rate has been adjusted to market rate. Low salary increment. No room for salary negotiation during compensation review sessions. Removal of Long Term Incentives for low-level engineers demoralized a lot of long-term employees. Fully remote to mandatory 8 days in the office per month. A lot of work with internal-only technologies (Gosu) makes it harder to grow as a Java engineer. Hired as a Java Engineer but worked as a full-stack developer. Working on many projects in parallel. Personally, I think this company is not a good place for engineers starting their career due to the use of proprietary internal technologies. But for older engineers at the later stages of their career, where this does not matter to them, everything else would be perfect.

Pros: The working environment is great. Everyone is so welcoming and friendly.

Cons: I haven't encountered anything bad yet, but I'll update once I do.