Quality of Management: problematic
Quality of Management: problematic
Work-life balance Stable environment Colleagues are collegial
Guidewire used to be a bottom-up company. Developers were given freedom to drive projects.
Now it's a top-down culture. Management holds most decision power, while not being hands-on enough to really understand what's going on.
It's OK if you just want a cushy job and don't mind being told to implement suboptimal solutions. Not good if you aspire to do the right thing.
The technical caliber of engineering teams is going down as more old-timers quit.
Quality of management in product development seems extremely uneven. In some areas, poor management is driving people to quit.
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The process began with an initial phone screen with a recruiter. Next, I was invited for an online coding test lasting two hours. It was pretty simple, really, emphasizing correctness over performance. The task work was a little repetitive but over
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Foster City, California, United StatesMarch 1, 2019I met with them at a career fair. The process involved a coding challenge at the career fair, then an online coding challenge, and then either a Zoom interview or an onsite interview. I had a Zoom session. The engineer had me take control of their sc
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Foster City, California, United StatesJune 1, 2018The process began with an initial phone screen with a recruiter. Next, I was invited for an online coding test lasting two hours. It was pretty simple, really, emphasizing correctness over performance. The task work was a little repetitive but over
