Guidewire

Guidewire has been trying to transition to the Cloud for the past few years now, which means there are many opportunities and teams where you can work with marketable technologies and grow your career.

Things are no longer the same at Guidewire. Guidewire used to be a good company which supported flexibility and autonomy. This is why it was such a highly reviewed place here on Glassdoor and won accolades for being one of the best places to work for in the past. It used to have a pretty good work-life balance. However, new mandates are being rolled out right now which are going to change all of that.

Before you had the opportunity to work from home every Friday, which gave everyone a break from their commute. This is no longer going to be allowed starting early next year. Also, before you could work flexible hours and dial into the stand-ups from home. Now you have to attend the stand-up in-person and be in the office by 9:30 am. Additionally, starting next year everyone will be forced to pair with each other.

As others have mentioned, in this changing environment, managers' instincts are to micromanage their teams and they have been getting away with it too. I honestly feel really bad for those who are here on work visas because they have too much to lose to speak up about these changes.

They have also eliminated most of the Senior and above positions and converted them to new grad ones. If I were a new grad, I would stay far, far away from here. At the very maximum, I would just use them to get another offer elsewhere.