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 recruiter was kind and nice. When talking with them, I was not nervous. They gave my resume to the group they thought was a better fit for me. The first phone call did not include any technical questions. The second phone call was a phone intervi
QA Engineer
Was asked totally trivial questions about Java, SQL, and black-box testing during a courteous 1-hour 1:1 interview. Returned for a planned 4-hour interview in software testing, expecting programming and puzzle questions. Was asked absolutely nothing
Software Engineer
• Wordy puzzle game • Went over the solution with the interviewer. • On-site interview, coding about a coffee-vendor machine.
Software Development Engineer
United StatesApril 1, 2016The recruiter was kind and nice. When talking with them, I was not nervous. They gave my resume to the group they thought was a better fit for me. The first phone call did not include any technical questions. The second phone call was a phone intervi
QA Engineer
Foster City, California, United StatesMarch 1, 2009Was asked totally trivial questions about Java, SQL, and black-box testing during a courteous 1-hour 1:1 interview. Returned for a planned 4-hour interview in software testing, expecting programming and puzzle questions. Was asked absolutely nothing
Software Engineer
Foster City, California, United StatesApril 1, 2010• Wordy puzzle game • Went over the solution with the interviewer. • On-site interview, coding about a coffee-vendor machine.
