Guidewire·Software Engineer

Guidewire Software Engineer interview experience

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Dublin, DublinPosted Apr 2015 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a phone call with HR where we went through my background and resume.

It felt more like a quick alignment on my experience than deep technical grilling.

Then I received a take-home style test that was scheduled for about three hours. It covered a bundle of Java-related topics—Java collections, JMS, JUnit, and JDBC. After that, I also had a phone-based technical interview for around forty-five minutes that focused on XML and core Java questions.

The whole sequence was fairly classic for a software engineering screen-and-assess path. I didn’t end up with an offer, but I understood pretty clearly what they were evaluating: both broad Java concepts and how I

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