Best Place to work if you are in the right dept! - Anonymous employee Guidewire Employee Review

3.0
Feb 22, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The Company is very strong and the executive team is leading them to great success. They are relatively generous with Stock awards.

Cons

They offer very low salaries and do not treat their employees equally whatsoever. As is usually the case with any company, some departments are the golden children and the others are the stepchildren. But at Guidewire, the golden children are treated extremely well, and their stepchildren receive absolutely no respect or appreciation of value. The golden children have completely open doors to all executives, and the stepchildren's comments and suggestions fall on absolutely closed ears. Because they have been named a "Best Place to work," they spend all their time keeping the golden children spoiled and begging the step children to do surveys and say something nice about Guidewire.

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5.0
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Internal education and freedom to learn about the industry

Cons

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Cons

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