senior software engineer

software engineer

full stack developer

senior product manager

product manager

Guidewire Software, Inc.

What is the best part of working at the company?
That would be a tie between the people I worked with, and the company's genuine dedication, from the time I joined, to its three values: Integrity, Rationality, and Collegiality. I have never worked at a company that lived up to its values so well. The "collegiality" thing probably contributed to my experience with my coworkers, but they definitely contributed hugely to the collegiality.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
They have been going through a series of major changes: first from onsite tech to cloud tech; simultaneously from releases every year and a half to twice a year and, more recently to three times a year. This was pretty stressful for all of us. 
Then, more recently, they have been (as is somewhat proper) very keen on returning to profitability, which they knowingly lost while passing through the previous two transitions: my problem with this is that they are pushing that onto employees, with a series of fairly large RIFs. (I was a "beneficiary" of one of those.)

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Mostly good, though there has been growing fear among the employees as the RIFs proliferate. Several of my former coworkers to whom I've spoken have said they feel targets on their backs (or words to that effect). And it isn't just the rank and file; our director was caught in the last RIF.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Get up, check my calendar, and set up my goals for what I expect to complete that day. Then complete it. Usually there would be one to three Zoom meetings in a given day, the rest of the time was plugging away at my current projects. There were interruptions -- and I do not say that this is a bad thing! -- from coworkers who needed help with something, or just wanted to talk. So, very collegial.

Guidewire is a very interesting company, started by some McKinsey consultants to serve the Property and Casualty insurance industry.  By all accounts, they have have done a great job of developing and implementing enterprise software and helping their clients to achieve their business goals.  Guidewire has done a lot of things right and seem to be most constrained by the large and conservative nature of their clients.

It was a decent experience working at Guidewire.
Migration form on-premise to Cloud was combined with the common company shift to a DevOps/SaaS world, lead by a new CEO and C-level team.
Development was restuctured and new blood added.
New office was created in Dublin, but not used due to the pandemic. People still visiting it rarely.
If you work hard you are treated well, but getting the promotion requires constant fight.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The individual interaction with clients

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The people who run the Pittsfield office not listening to staff and managers and picking favorites over great workers

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Environment can be stressful.  Culture is very diverse.

Highly siloed organization leading to lack of caring for customer. The support organization do not get respect from product development even though it is messy job. Support have valuable insights into product and monitoring issues which are largely ignored as are not "priority".

A/P Director and A/P manager are not professional at their position.

A/P manager came in a month after me and soon she brought her coworker from her previous job to take my position while I  had built very positive work relationship with various departments, especially Purchasing and vendors.  they liked my work and my personality.

Pros :- Small company culture and atmosphere, very good benefits including stock options and cash bonus, flexible working hours/remote options
Cons :- made up of several acquired products along side their core offerings, so trying to overcome such disjoints within and also billability is important factor for Client facing roles.

While GW has been around for a while, the internal culture, especially in Product Development is quite unstable. The leadership has a hard time clearly communicating the priorities, favoritism is inescapable, the direction often shifts without much clarifications provided to the organization.

Worked as a Consultant for 6 months. People were nice to work with had great benefits and perks. That was only thing good about it. Executive Management had no clue about how poor HR Management was. Very unprofessional and rude attitude/behavior. No executive involvement with staff morale whatsoever. No work life balance, overworked and required to do so.

For me this job was not really worth it. Unfortunately you get paid an extremely low wage and you have the risk of getting punched bit kicked spit on and these individuals don't brush their teeth or have good personal hygiene. Management is terrible we have went through four different managers in th personals e last year. Benefits are not that good.

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