Guidewire·Software Engineer

Guidewire Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

San Mateo, CAPosted May 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through an unusually long and exhausting process that ended up feeling almost unfair.

The total timeline was close to nine hours of interviewing. It started when a recruiter reached out even though I hadn’t really applied and hadn’t known much about the company beforehand.

After a recruiter call, I had a follow-up with a senior director immediately after, then I cleared that and received a Codility challenge that lasted about two hours. The next round with a principal software engineer leaned into situation-based discussion rather than just technical questions, which was unlike what I’d seen before. The following day, I went into a panel interview that stretched into about

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