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Updated May 6, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software QA Engineer at Guidewire
Posted May 6, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 (took 2+ weeks)
The recruiter called me up on to set up a telephonic interview. The hiring manager called me up for half an hour interview. His accent was hard to get in the beginning but it went well. He asked me knowledge base Java questions and gave a positive response.
The recruiter called me up to set up the face to face interview and I told him that I was not available for a week as I had to ungergo a minor surgery. He said he will call me again.
He did not call me for a week, not even an email. When I recovered from my surgery, I emailed him and asked if they were still interested. I was not very hopeful.
But he replied and told me that they were still interested. They called me up for a f2f interview and there were 2 rounds.
- first round was general testing questions and some hashmap problem
- second round was with a QA engineer who gave me the overview of writing test cases in Gosu / Studio similar to JUnit/Eclipse environment and then asked me to automate something. I did pretty well and fast there as he was impressed.
The recruiter told me that I did well in the first round and was waiting for the feedback on the second and most probably would be calling me. Next day was my birthday and I was in SF the whole time with her when he called me up to set up the next on-site interview. I did not go home and started studying immediately. I took taht day off.
Next day when I reached there I met 4 people
a Senior Dev engineer who asked me a lot of Java questions, JavaScript, REST and gave me code samples and asked about the bugs and improvement. This round went well.
Next round was with a dev manager and asked me a white box testing problem. This round went ok.
The next round with Product manager was the worst one. He asked me about DB indexing and a BST program. I did not have a good feeling after this round.
The last round was with my hiring manager who took my phone interview. This was easy round with some behavioral questions. I was exhausted by then.
I got the offer next day.
Interview Questions
Negotiation Details
You can try negotiating. They do not offer awesome packages though
Other Details
The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Technical Product Manager - Consultant at Guidewire
Posted Dec 12, 2011 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 (took 2 weeks)
One of the strangest interview processes I have ever gone through. I was contacted by Guidewire and they set up a phone interview which went well, as the interviewer said that he was going to reccomend that I move further in the process and set up the technical test. The test went fine, fairly basic. Then I was set up for another interview which went very well. The 3 hours later I received a phone call saying they were no longer interested.... Wierd company .. almost as if the interview process made no difference.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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QA Engineer at Guidewire
Posted Dec 6, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2010 in San Mateo, CA (took 1 week)
The interviewers were friendly and helped me to overcome nervousness.
Hiring manager was honest in describing the role / responsibilities to me.
He was good at telling both positive and negative aspects of being at guidewire.
I was given a decision 1 day after my in-person interviews.
Interview questions were similar to the questions described in rest on the interview feedbacks.
Interview Questions
Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Skills Test, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Product Manager at Guidewire
Posted Oct 18, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in San Mateo, CA (took 4+ weeks)
The interview process was very thorough with multiple rounds. It started off with a call from HR to find if I was the right fit for Guidewire's culture. Then a phone interview with someone in a similar role. After the phone round, there were three onsite interviews. The first onsite round had 1:1 interview with 3 people in similar roles. The second round has 1:1 interview with 3 people from the team and the third round was with senior management.
The interviews revolved around questions very relevant to the role, more hands-on questions...no irrelevant questions which I got from other companies I interviewed at. The interview experience was very positive to make me more interested in joining the company.
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Negotiation Details
Offered better than expected and accepted.
Other Details
I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Guidewire
Posted Oct 18, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 (took a day)
Applied the post online and got an response from the Guidewire recruiter quickly within 3 days. A quick phone interview with the HR recruiter. she just ask a general technical questions to ensure your skills set matches to the skill set in the job description. Then she request to write a 90 minutes technical test.
After the test, I though that I am doing fine. At least , I have confidence that I provide the correct answers for 80%.
Three days after the test, I got an phone call from another HR personal from Guidewire saying that she will not pursuit any further of the interview. I ask how I did in the test. She did not answer directly my question but rather she ask me how difficult is the test.
Interview Questions
2.- List the main concepts of object-oriented development. Describe at least one in detail.
3.-Given an array of type Contact with the property Phone, write a Java method that determines whether any pair of contacts in the array has the same phone number. Be sure to return a boolean value of true if a match is found. Note that there are several potential solutions to this problem. Please try to provide the most efficient solution possible assuming a very large number of contacts
4.-List the test method names that you would want to implement for the above code. Provide the implementation for at least one of these
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Skills Test and a Phone Interview.
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Consultant at Guidewire
Posted Aug 21, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 (took a day)
This job involves a lot of travel working at their client sites. I went through the first phone interview but didn't have time to complete the second multi-hour programming assignment. First phone interview consisted of Java trivia questions such as the various access modifiers, inheritance, etc.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Accounting at Guidewire
Posted Aug 17, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Springfield, MA (took a day)
Had to take a skills test... basic vocabulary, letter writing, then had to do some on excel, and word. Ended with how fast i type...
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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Engineering at Guidewire
Posted Jun 2, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2010 in San Mateo, FL (took 2 days)
Got call thru recruiter.Interview consisted on Phone screening and online skills test
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Senior Software Engineer at Guidewire
Posted Mar 15, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2009 in San Mateo, CA (took 2 days)
After a short phone screen, I had a four hours of interviewing. The interviewers wanted to see if we could work well together. Other companies wanted me to prove that I was good enough to work there. The difference: Guidewire respects their candidates. Interviews focused on writing clean, maintainable code, communication and problem decomposition. Other companies tested me on trivia or implementing algorithms that I doubt someone in the position in question would need to implement. In addition to being smart, Guidewire wants to know the quality of the code you produce and what it would be like to work with you to solve problems. This told me that I'd like working with other at Guidewire, and I was right.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Senior Product Manager at Guidewire
Posted Mar 14, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2009 (took 2 months)
Complete waste of time, 6 rounds of interview, over 2 months. Went through each round and then at the end, oh you don't have the complete set of skills that we are looking for.
Started with applying online, a screen by HR recruiter, followed by a phone interview with a consultant, the week after. Then it was a online technical test - Javascript, Java, database, SQL, pseudo code, then interview with another consultant, followed by interview with a senior manager and a last interview with some director. All in all over 2 months, a complete waste of time.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Skills Test and a Phone Interview.
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