Substance over flash - Software Engineer Guidewire Employee Review

4.0
Jul 14, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

A refreshingly mature company with a long-term strategy, genuinely useful products, and great colleagues.

Cons

Teams working on Line of Business templates (as opposed to the core platform) use Gosu, a JVM language that was developed in-house. Perhaps that has changed due to the shift to LLM-assisted development (FWIW, I actually left in 2019, but Glassdoor wouldn't let me choose a year before 2022).

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5.0
Jul 24, 2026
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Pros

Easy entry level job for beginner

Cons

Low pay with no raises

2.0
Feb 25, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

NA, can't think of anything positive anymore. It's a micromanaging mess.

Cons

Guidewire makes majors shift every 2 years and the last one to take PgM out of PD into its own department is a micromanaging nightmare. We have more status meetings and spreadsheets to update than time to do any work anymore. 3 places to update if I want to take PTO. 7am and 7pm meetings are now the norm. 6 bosses in 10 years, no one can make up their mind on the direction of the company, projects start and are abandoned constantly.

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