Guidewire reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(1,472 total reviews)
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Mike Rosenbaum

90% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Guidewire has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,472 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
5.0
Jan 20, 2016
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Pros

Smart people, stable product with heavily invested customer base. Lots of smart people who are thinking about the long-term horizon. People looking for a 9-5 job with good work/life balance will find opportunities to get a good paycheck for doing honest work. Ambitious people will find lots of projects that need owners, especially if they're willing to take charge/initiative and get their hands dirty doing lots of the work themselves.

Cons

Lots of legacy, software, including many outdated, custom, in-house tools that hamper productivity and adoption of third-party/open-source tools. That's changing somewhat as several influential founding engineers with NIH syndrome gradually lose ground to new hires with better ideas. The company is (somewhat belatedly) embracing the cloud, but leadership in that area is uncertain/unproven. The tide is shifting, but slowly.

5.0
Oct 29, 2015

Working at Guidewire

Anonymous employee
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Pros

One of the best reasons to work at Guidewire is the people and the challenging work. I enjoy getting up and coming to work. I really like the team environment and working with new technologies.

Cons

I have nothing bad to say.

3.0
Jun 1, 2015

Data Migration Professional Services

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great people, the company culture is nice, although I professional services as in many consulting organizations, you are treated as a resource first and person second.

Cons

Guidewire grew very quickly. Much of upper management in professional services is run more of a club than a business with respect to favoritism and some policy making

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