Great CEO, field consultants are amazing, and only negative is poor mid-level management - Anonymous employee Guidewire Employee Review

4.0
Oct 31, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Very collegial - Field consultants will go above and beyond to help each other - Salary is very competitive - Well respected in the insurance space - Great CEO in terms of being the face of the company

Cons

- Mid-level management were promoted despite their lack of management skill - Performance evaluation is poor at best (poorly managed due to quick growth in company size) - Lack of leadership skills in forecasting, and again poor management, which led to furloughs and poor moral (yet no leaders were held accountable) - Lack or mix communication on the direction of the company as a whole - Getting lost in the shuffle is starting to surface even though the company is not big enough to be so

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5.0
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Pros

Internal education and freedom to learn about the industry

Cons

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2.0
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Pros

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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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