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540 Ratings
Pros
Guidewire honestly believes in work/life balance (in 115 reviews)
Need to work from home for something (in 29 reviews)
Cons
Work-life balance can sometime be a challenge as well (in 19 reviews)
Growing pains with recent merger (in 21 reviews)
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"A True Career Company"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Guidewire full-time (More than 10 years)
Pros
Guidewire is a great company and especially ideal for the career-minded individual. The company is large enough to offer a variety of jobs in all kinds of interesting locations. Even if you never change roles, your job changes and evolves as the company grows, keeping things fresh. This is an exciting time to work in the P&C insurance industry as well. Our customers and our employees are some of the nicest people you will ever meet.
Cons
Things move quickly these days - you either pick up the pace or risk being left behind. This may not be ideal for everyone, but is ideal for those who are up for the challenge.
Advice to Management
Stand by our founding principles - collegiality, rationality, and integrity are so powerful in their execution. They have made Guidewire the company it is today and will carry us forward.
Guidewire 2018-01-15 16:03 PSTHelpful (6)
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"Quality of Management problematic"
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Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Guidewire full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
Work-life balance
Stable environment
Colleagues are collegialCons
Guidewire used to be a bottom up company. Developers were given freedom to drive projects. Now it's 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 are aspired to do the right thing.
Technical caliber of engineering teams is going down as more old timers quit.Advice to Management
Quality of management in product development seems extremely uneven. In some areas poor management is driving people to quit.
Guidewire 2018-04-18 20:47 PDTHelpful (3)
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"Outstanding work environment, but on the decline"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Guidewire full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
Professional culture, friendly, supportive, and striving for rationality. Good amount of long time employees are still with the company helping the retention of knowledge.
Cons
The management in product development has been deteriorating in the last several years. A few years ago, a full product-dev re-org was followed by a second reboot to fix the mistakes of the first. After the re-org, engineers ended up less involved in important decisions. Appreciation of successful project delivery meaning respect, awards, or occasional promotion to project participants also subsided. The social (party) budget of teams increased substantially but that cannot mask the real issues.
Advice to Management
Stick more closely to the company values and stand your ground against the wall street pressure to reduce the company to just another public hi-tech.
Guidewire 2018-04-04 09:39 PDT![Guidewire Logo]()
"Je suis content"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Guidewire full-time (More than 8 years)
Pros
this company walks its talk: it lives, at least 90% of the time, to its professed values of "integrity, rationality, collegiality"; I am given a reasonable amount of (mostly) meaningful work to do, which is challenging but not overwhelming
Cons
They changed their employee feedback system so instead of a written report you get a quarterly "dialog" with your manager. This is meaningless.
Advice to Management
Written reviews _matter_.
Guidewire 2018-01-05 15:55 PST![Guidewire Logo]()
"Compensation"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookI worked at Guidewire full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Attracts excellent talent in the PS org
Cons
Slow to move to cloud via organic build of products
Advice to Management
The Board should re-evaluate executive compensation. The CEO pay at $12M on Salary.com seems to be an outlier relative to the rewards that accrue to the rank and file who does the heavy lifting on product, in the PS org, and in sales.
Guidewire 2018-01-18 17:45 PST![Guidewire Logo]()
"Engineer"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Guidewire full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Get to work on cutting edge technology
Super cool team mates
No concept of timesheets
Flexible hours
Excellent pay
Free basic Insurance
Work from home
Friendly managers
Macbook and two 24 inch monitors
Free HDHP insurance
Free SnacksCons
No serious ones. Maybe small ones like parking spots are narrower but many spots available so not a problem really
Advice to Management
Keep it up
Guidewire 2017-12-15 12:45 PSTHelpful (2)
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"BEWARE OF HELPDESK DEPT..."
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Guidewire full-time (More than a year)
Pros
fully stocked kitchen and there is always food from training's and events.
Cons
if you would like to destroy your IT career join the help desk team. Never in my whole IT career have i experience poor management like this.
Advice to Management
swallow a knife...
Guidewire 2018-01-08 12:52 PSTHelpful (2)
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"Great company if you can stand the travel in services or are in the Bay area, Toronto, or Krakow"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Guidewire full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
Company cares about its people and works to meet their needs
Good pay and benefits (services side)
Good support network from other members of the companyCons
travel as a consultant is tough in services
lots of flux in product management currently as the company shifts directions slightlyGuidewire 2017-11-13 10:38 PSTHelpful (10)
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"Simply let down"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI have been working at Guidewire full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
High involvement & level of responsibility
Cons
Zero reward/incentive based involvement. Out of touch management, lack of focused direction in projects, zero company culture.
Advice to Management
My advice would be to provide a reward based system that promotes hard work, striving to go above and beyond. Rather, hard work that should be acknowledged is assumed for granted with no reward. Don't strive to be great here because you will burn out. Very sad but true.
Guidewire 2017-10-26 02:28 PDTHelpful (2)
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"Great place to work!!"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Guidewire full-time
Pros
Guidewire is a great place to work. I had an fantastic 1st day, and the orientation was very informative. I have learned a lot about the company and the product itself.
Cons
Amazing team! nothing to change or dislike
Guidewire 2017-10-16 11:19 PDT
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