PDO department used to be a great place to work - Software Engineer II Guidewire Employee Review

3.0
Dec 17, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great worklife balance and nice office space. 8 days mandatory office days per month. Great colleagues. Great benefits (Medical, Dental, Optical, Wellness, Mobile Phone, Home Internet)

Cons

Salary from above market rate has been adjusted to market rate. Low salary increment. No room for salary negotiation during compensation review sessions. Removal of Long Term Incentives for low level engineers made a lot of long term employees demoralized. Fully remote to mandatory 8 days office per month. A lot of work with internal only technologies (Gosu) which makes it harder to grow as a Java engineer. Hired as a Java Engineer but worked as a fullstack developer. Working on many projects in parallel. Personally I think this company is not a good place for engineers starting out their career due to the use of propriety internal technologies but for older engineers at the later stages of their career where this does not matter to them, everything else would be perfect for them.

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5.0
May 16, 2026
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Pros

Internal education and freedom to learn about the industry

Cons

Fully remote means less time spent with other team members

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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