"Manager" - Anonymous employee Guidewire Employee Review

2.0
8 Sept 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Most people in the upper management are very caring . No red tape. Good work life balance. CFO and CEO is great . Most people are very friendly.

Cons

HR sucks . No intent to build a better cutlure and environment , ignoring inappropriate , unfair treatment to retaliate employees who complains about a problem. They just try to protect the company by covering it up. Management is overall good but except for a few who is entirely not professional and getting personal, abusing their power as there are areas where there are no policy set and up to manager discretion. Title in this organization is not commensurate with thier skill set. Some Senior directors just know so little about their area of responsibility. They rely heavily on consultants and make decisions based on common sense even it the area involves laws and high scrunity by external auditors. This is very risky . Be careful, when they promise you anything during the interview and hiring process, they can be reverted any time and the excuse they have is "things change and there is no need for a policy"

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Cons

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