Excellent work-life balance with a collaborative work setting. - Software Engineer Guidewire Employee Review

5.0
15 Nov 2013
Recommend
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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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5.0
16 May 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Internal education and freedom to learn about the industry

Cons

Fully remote means less time spent with other team members

2.0
25 Feb 2026
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Pros

NA, can't think of anything positive anymore. It's a micromanaging mess.

Cons

Guidewire makes majors shift every 2 years and the last one to take PgM out of PD into its own department is a micromanaging nightmare. We have more status meetings and spreadsheets to update than time to do any work anymore. 3 places to update if I want to take PTO. 7am and 7pm meetings are now the norm. 6 bosses in 10 years, no one can make up their mind on the direction of the company, projects start and are abandoned constantly.

5
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