Excellent company run by grownups - Senior Product Manager Guidewire Employee Review

5.0
Oct 29, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Rational decision making, honest customer communications, and a great culture make this a place worth making a career. People and relationships are valued highly. We tend to avoid the death marches that are typical in a lot of Silicon Vally companies, and think rationally about how to deal with problems.

Cons

Growth poses a challenge as we have to service more and more customers and deal with a larger set of products and services. The pressure is somewhat higher following our recent IPO.

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5.0
May 16, 2026
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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
Feb 25, 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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