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      4.0

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (1,470 total reviews)
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      Mike Rosenbaum

      90% approve of CEO

      70% positive business outlook

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      4.2

      Culture & values

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.2

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Senior management

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      Guidewire has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,470 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Guidewire employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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      1K reviews
      3.0
      Oct 16, 2018

      In-Secure place to work

      Software developer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      * Moving towards Cloud * Latest Technologies * Good work life balance and compensation

      Cons

      * Top down management * Employees transferred to teams without proper discussion * HR bends towards management instead of analyzing real issue.

      3.0
      Feb 8, 2016

      Make sure to vet your

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      While these vary from team to team, in my experience the best parts of working at Guidewire have been as follows: * Good work life balance and flexible work arrangements (e.g., Work from Home) * Opportunity to work with smart people * Opportunity to interact with customers who are (in general) big fans of the product

      Cons

      With the caveat that this comes from the perspective of someone who is not part of product development or sales, make sure to screen for the following if you are considering working here: * Career paths are non-existent; in order to be promoted you need to be in the right place at the right time and/or have the skills to play politics well. * Limited to no investment in training. Unlike many of my past employers, there is no pre-defined budget per employee to take courses or attend conferences. * Single vertical focus leads to senior management with "P&C insurance blinders". Ideas and trends from outside the P&C insurance industry are often ignored. At the same time, the single biggest qualification within the company is having many years of experience in P&C insurance. * Product Dev and Sales rule the roost; contributions from other organizations (e.g., marketing, IT, finance) are not really valued by senior management (especially the CEO).

      1.0
      May 10, 2014

      Slippery slope

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      1. Good work life balance for most in dev. Many work <40 hour week 2. Relaxed environment for junior engineers as their managers have no stake in project delivery 3. Long lunch breaks, flexible hours, wfh days

      Cons

      1. Overpowered project managers led to short termism 2. Senior dev management makes misinformed decisions constantly and is unaware of the consequences, busy fighting fires started by themselves 3. PM organization is over politicized and lack vision 4. QA does manual testing for the most part and causes bottle neck in release cycle. Product quality declined as developer test coverage dropping 5, Engineers don't agree with each other and everyone wants to build their own stack. Poor performers drag down team morale 6. people who only talk the talk rise up the ladder. Smart people adapt to manage up, form clubs or bite their tongue 7. 90% of the work done by 10% of the people. Reward distribution is a different story 8. lost talented people who walk the walk. SPOFs. Competitive advantage diminishing

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      Guidewire Response
      12y
      As head of our product development team I would like to thank you for your feedback and offer my perspective. The Guidewire team prides itself on living up to our core values of integrity, rationality, and collegiality. These are the same principles upon which Guidewire was founded and they remain at the heart of all we do together today. Guidewire has an open door policy, and we encourage all employees to reach out any member of the management team, at any time and for any reason, without any fear of judgment or retribution. I would like to elaborate on some of the cultural principles we aspire to in our product development organization. We make the most rational decisions we can given the facts available to us, delegate decision making to the most informed and knowledgeable people, communicate decisions openly, introspect upon those decisions, and adjust as necessary as we learn. When tackling challenges, our engineers, product managers, and others come with differing points of view informed by their unique experiences and insights. It is through vigorous debate, discussion, and understanding of facts that the best answer to a given challenge emerges. Sometimes we make mistakes and when we do, we do our utmost to learn from them. Our senior management team always wants to hear direct feedback – positive or negative. Hearing and acting on that feedback is crucial to serving our customers with excellence and creating a great place to work. So whenever someone raises a concern, it is a top priority of senior management to listen and respond to suggestions for improvement.
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