Excellent place to work with smart colleagues
Excellent place to work with smart colleagues
- Smart and fun folks
- Complex problems to solve
- Customers love us
- Adapting agile practices for enterprise software
- Selling with integrity and product driven
- Flat organizational structure despite consistent growth
Guidewire focuses on Property & Casualty Insurance core systems, which we don't kid ourselves in thinking is the sexiest industry. However, there are real and sophisticated problems that we solve with our solutions, and they are used every day by a large and global user base.
Keep up the good work. While the recent changes have been good, the execution is a little rushed (we're bigger than we used to be).
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Software Engineer
Interview Structure: * Codility test (2 rounds) * Pair programming (2 rounds) * System design (1 round) * Managerial (1 round) The interviewers were comforting and did not focus heavily on LeetCode problems. They also included me in daily meetings
Backend Software Engineer
First round with the Director. There was no greeting, and the interviewer directly jumped to a question. The question was to design an Iterator, which was very tricky. The interviewer was helpful in guiding, but did not give any extra time. Overall,
QA Lead
Poor planning and communication. I pre-interviewed for a QA lead role in Java and SQL. I don't really do database work in much depth, so they gave me a chance to review my SQL syntax before the real interview. Unfortunately, the real interview had n
Software Engineer
San Mateo, California, United StatesMarch 27, 2025Interview Structure: * Codility test (2 rounds) * Pair programming (2 rounds) * System design (1 round) * Managerial (1 round) The interviewers were comforting and did not focus heavily on LeetCode problems. They also included me in daily meetings
Backend Software Engineer
San Mateo, California, United StatesApril 2, 2025First round with the Director. There was no greeting, and the interviewer directly jumped to a question. The question was to design an Iterator, which was very tricky. The interviewer was helpful in guiding, but did not give any extra time. Overall,
QA Lead
San Mateo, California, United StatesJanuary 1, 2009Poor planning and communication. I pre-interviewed for a QA lead role in Java and SQL. I don't really do database work in much depth, so they gave me a chance to review my SQL syntax before the real interview. Unfortunately, the real interview had n
