just another large bumbling corporation. I now have like 12 bosses. - Sr. Architect Guidewire Employee Review

2.0
20 June 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

your immediate team will likely be great.

Cons

this company is now at the level i expected it would move to.... investor focused (not bad necessarily) meat market. there is NO collegiality any more there is NO promotion from within.... so when the vp/chief of professional services left there was NO ONE in services management that could not take that or no one wanted that position? yeah... the way to move up is the same as all companies now... move out. We even heard that directly from the so called chief product development "officer." He loves it when you leave guidewire to learn something, that apparently no one at guidewire knows, and then you come back. Want to move up at guidewire - quit - go work for a mature cloud company and then come back to guidewire if you really want to. also, will guidewire ever be able to claim "cloud native" as long as it depends on it's antiquated, outdated, programming language, Gosu?

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5.0
16 May 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Internal education and freedom to learn about the industry

Cons

Fully remote means less time spent with other team members

2.0
25 Feb 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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