A good place to work and grow - Engineering Manager Guidewire Employee Review

5.0
Nov 5, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of talented developers. An actually useful review process. A fun environment. Good forums for feedback to management. The CEO responds to email. Developers are treated well. Working at home for part of the time is okay. Teamwork is highly valued. There are opportunities to get trained, and a lot of people form study groups. Everybody is very collegial and helpful; if you ask for help they won't leave you until the problem is solved.

Cons

No free lunch - it is a bit of a pain to get lunch every day. There is a bit of a separation of the dev and the non-dev part. Not a lot of mixing is going on the devs actually work in a separate building. The good management sometimes leads to inflexible budgets. Everything is planned and if you want to add later there has to be a real good explanation.

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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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