No longer a startup; not yet a mature corporation - Anonymous employee Guidewire Employee Review

3.0
Jun 12, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some very smart people in development; good work-life balance; not that much politics; agile Development process; Gosu language is a dream to work with. Pretty good control of hiring: few passengers.

Cons

Boring domain. Very slow pace of growth. Customers can take years to choose, install and configure the app. No startup buzz any more, but few benefits of being more mature (eg no decent 401k match). Half original founders have left. Salaries ok but not great. Feels like the company has gone into snooze mode. Much more hierarchical management structure is crystallizing.

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