I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Guidewire (Dublin, Dublin) in Jun 2013
Interview
Intensive interview process.
1 x 30 minute phone call about my skills/experience in the technologies and methodologies used by the company. Interviewer was lovely, easy to deal with and provided a lot of information.
1 x code test. Was given 4 hours to do it. One mandatory question and one optional on Bad Code, JDBC, JMS and Iterators.
1 x 45-60 minute technical phone interview on Java, n-tier architecture, XML, databases, Agile and more. The guy was great to deal with, asked lots of tough questions and gave ample time to form answers.
3 x 1 hour face-to-face interviews. First interview was on my interest in the position, some discussion on projects / project architecture and then some white board code and architecture work. Interviewer was great to deal with, provided lots of feedback as the problems were being done on the white board and provided a lot of information as to the opportunities available within the company.
Second face-to-face interview was held with an implementation architect. Very nice guy. Asked a lot of questions on Java, design patterns, web services and more that were significantly tougher / more obscure than those asked in previous interviews and especially the code test. Did some white board coding / architecture diagrams.
Final face-to-face interview was with a guy from consulting enablement. Provided me with a demo of one of Guidewire's products and more. Did a final bit of whiteboard coding here.
Overall it was a great experience and has undoubtedly developed my technical interview skills as well as understanding of some more obscure areas of Java. Unfortunately I didn't get an offer as the second face-to-face interview didn't go as well as the rest and the decision among the interviewers has to be unanimous.
The people involved in the process were fantastic, very smart and easy to get along with and the interview process was entirely without any of the BS attached with more traditional styles of interviewing ("What is your greatest weakness?" type questions).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I don't believe it's fair to other candidates or the company to provide specific questions here. Some of the questions in the second face-to-face interview were very obscure and I'm unsure of how I would recommend someone to prepare for it. The rest of the questions, in the code test, phone interview and face-to-face interviews are nothing that someone with perhaps a year of experience in development shouldn't be able to answer.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Guidewire
Interview
1. Online coding test
2. On call discussion with HR where you'll discuss about you and HR will give information about the company
3. On call technical interview
4. In person technical interview
5. Final call with HR
I applied online. I interviewed at Guidewire (Dublin, Dublin) in Jun 2017
Interview
The interview process took at least a week. I went through a phone screening by the HR and was asked to do a code test, then a web technical interview and finally a 3 and a half hour face to face interview onsite.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe the Singleton Pattern. Try and implement it.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Guidewire (Dublin, Dublin) in Jun 2017
Interview
4 stage interview process.
- HR screening process, usual questions for HR.
- Phone call and screen sharing coding test. Fundamentals on java language.
-4hr code test done in own time, questions revolve around db connection, jms, connecting to network.
- 3hr face to face interview with 3 managers, 1 for db basics, 1 for culture and 1 for coding basics.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe DB join statements and a couple of db queries.