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      4.0

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (1,471 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 1,471 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 23, 2014

      A place to grow your career

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Professional environment, friendly and open. A very focused management team and company that's most concerned about the customer success and employee satisfaction than anything else.

      Cons

      Travel is sometimes difficult specially with a young family but this well communicated in advance. Also, this kind of job has the same difficulty regardless of the company. The fact that it's only %80 of the time helps too.

      4.0
      Dec 22, 2013

      Interesting place to work , wink wink.

      Non development role
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great work life balance, nice colleagues whom I enjoy collaborating with. I don't feel it is slave driver culture which I have seen in previous jobs. Compensation is on par with market, there is no espp but we do get some equity with hiring package. Love that we have holiday shut down, thirsty thursdays, free sodas /snacks, subsidized membership to the PJCC Gym. I know some feel we need more perks however I believe Guidewire is generous, more so than my prior employers.

      Cons

      Poor people managers, this could be due to lack of development programs for first time managers. Need better processes and systems, may be partly due to inexperienced managers again. Management has been penny wise and pound foolish until now, but i think they turned the corner and realize we need some investments. The so-called great culture depends on which organization you are in. HR does not report into the CEO which is quite strange. CEO is young, not very experienced luckily things are going well. I do wonder what happens if we hit a snag in future and whether he has the know how to manuever us out of a jam, that will be the true test of a good CEO. Performance management process is not really enforced. As result star employees do not always get recognized, and weak employees linger on when they should have been managed out.

      5.0
      Nov 15, 2013

      Excellent work-life balance with a collaborative work setting.

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      excellent work-life balance, big on knowledge-sharing and transparency, big on collaboration and pair-programming, meaningful and useful intern projects, the walls are white boards, the managers care deeply about happiness, our weeks before a major release don't involve overtime, we have our own open-sourced programming language: Gosu.

      Cons

      our technology stack is a little old unless you're on the Live team, our main office is in Foster City.

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