Pros
Guidewire has an excellent product portfolio and an extremely professional and motivated team of employees. The Guidewire leadership team under Mike Rosenbaum is trustworthy and passionate. Overall, the company's culture is impressively straightforward, open and friendly. At Guidewire, it's the best arguments and reasoning that matter. Most decisions are usually discussed independently of hierarchies and made in the spirit of reaching the best possible consensus. Rationality and factual reasoning are the backbone of Guidewire's culture, although they incorporate significant social topics, against a backdrop of political and public opinion. Guidewire provides excellent ongoing training programs that are available to every employee. In addition, Guidewire supports employee´s community involvement with up to 3 additional vacation days per year. During the Covit/ Corona period, Guidewire unbureaucratically ensured that all (!) employees received extra $ for home office equipment . In addition, a weekly fixed amount could be requested to pay for delivery services. Gift cards were also given to employees to invest in sporting equipment. It should also be mentioned that GW pays for health insurance and offers many additional benefits that significantly exceed what other companies provide for their employees. Salary at Guidewire is competitive and performance-based. Great performers are paid excellent salaries. Guidewire is, overall, a quite outstanding employer.
Cons
Guidewire has been a little too busy with social issues lately. While this is very important, I think Guidewire has been exaggerating tranings, workshops and debates on BLM, LBTQ. It's important to keep addressing these issues, but at Guidewire you could sometimes get the impression that white skinned men in particula are the devil incarnate. So yes, no misunderstandings: Guidewire is a woke company, though in a good sense :-)