Guidewire reviews

At Guidewire you will never experience a negative competition attitude, where one is trying to take advantage of the other. Coworkers work together to the ultimate goal of making better software. If you have a problem you can just ask for help/tips to any developer. He will stop what he is doing and have a constructive conversation with you and pair at your desk if needed. Most of the developers are really skilled with several rock stars programmers in the Platform team. The culture at Guidewire is great likewise the general vibe in the office.

The workplace has an impressive range of diversity in terms of race, gender, sexual-orientation, age, nationality, and politics. What's really exciting is that this seems to be self-selecting -- new hire Work environment has humane schedule/hours -- full-time means 40 hours. Subject to your team's habits, the company is tolerant of people who want to work slightly off-peak hours (to avoid rush-hour traffic) or telecommute a day a week. Management does a good job of planning release dates and feature sets so that the slog up to a deadline isn't a death march of late nights and/or lost weekends. Relative to many tech companies, Guidewire's products have an extremely long horizon (read: a decade or longer) because the products are used by large insurers who move very deliberately. Consequently, if you spend time/energy building something, you will almost certainly have the satisfaction of seeing it ship to customers, because there's almost certainly an actual customer that has asked for it and is eager to use it. Turnover is low, and my experience speaking with employees that have exited since I joined is that they seem to leave for positive reasons. Largely, they told me they were looking for something categorically different (excitement of a startup, early retirement, unusual opportunity elsewhere, going back to school, etc.), not leaving out of dissatisfaction. Communication skills and collegiality (in terms of behavior) are highly valued. Since virtually everything ships and has a long life in maintenance, teams spend a slightly greater-than-industry-average amount of time discussing designs and doing future planning. (The result is that legacy code is surprisingly easy to maintain.) Guidewire is a genuinely modern approach to the insurance industry...no 20th-century albatrosses here. Development work is done using recently stable (and sometimes slightly leading-edge) tools. For those who like to play on the bleeding edge, the company holds regular hackathons where those flights of fancy are encouraged. Tech talks are a regular part of the dev culture.