Guidewire Reviews

Pros

Excellent manager supervising my work. Remote location (work from home or other states). Good competitive compensation package. Mixed work teams with good cooperation from coworkers. Regular meetings with lower, middle, and upper management; I feel like I know what is occurring at the company and strategically where they are heading.

Cons

Some project timelines are very aggressive.

Pros

Long hour’s and hard work

Cons

Not an opportunity too advanced

Pros

Generally a good work life balance and everyone generally gets on well.

Cons

Poor sense of focus and direction within the product team at the moment but hopefully will improve soon

Pros

Open culture, great benefits, and work environment

Cons

Very specific market served P&C Insurance Market

Pros

Guidewire did a lot of things right to establish a strong market position. It enabled the company to start a pivot (which shouldn't have been necessary and is not yet complete) without losing too much business or share. The new CEO seems like a really strong contributor and I have confidence he'll have great positive impact on the company.

Cons

The company has a history of poor software engineering. It got deals done - which is great - but without the discipline to avoid custom implementations and unnecessary rework. It is a decade late getting to the cloud, and it's taking a lot of effort to fix the poor implementations of the past. The internal politics here is pathetic. The company claims that it's internal culture is great, but it's one of the more negative groups I've experienced. There's a clique of Guidewire veterans in the product development division (engineering, product management, QA, docs, etc) who are the very people responsible for the many poor product and development decisions of the past. These individuals strut around with an obnoxious arrogance and cluelessness of what they've done, and they keep "outsiders" at bay. The new head of the division is competent, but equally arrogant. He gets accolades but has yet to deliver more than routine updates to the old products. The important infrastructure changes he initiated have yet to be released and it's my opinion that's due to poor management throughout the middle management tier.

Pros

Values, customer commitment, knowledge/care of customer industry

Cons

In a painful product transition to SaaS