Solid place to work, good work life balance - Anonymous employee Guidewire Employee Review

4.0
Dec 23, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people who work at Guidewire are excellent. The products are high quality most of the time. There are opportunities for advancement as the company keeps growing every year. They do promote from within which gives us opportunities to move up, if we want to. Insurance is not the most glamorous industry, but there are good problems to work on. Technology is top notch, albeit sometimes a bit "not invented here".

Cons

Not really many downsides, besides that the benefits could be better. Had unlimited vacation policy, but the new CEO got rid of that.

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5.0
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Pros

Internal education and freedom to learn about the industry

Cons

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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.

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