Guidewire·Software Engineer

Guidewire Software Engineer interview experience

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Dublin, DublinPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through an early recruiter connection and then straight into a technical interview focused heavily on Java.

The questions felt like a mix of LeetCode-style coding and object-oriented programming fundamentals—things like Java interview concepts around things such as static and abstract. The focus wasn’t just on writing code; it was also on explaining the reasoning behind the approach.

The second technical step gave me a code snippet and asked me to use my OOP knowledge and experience to spot what was wrong and propose fixes. That was the part that really tested whether I could read code critically, not just generate it. Overall it felt difficult because the bar was less about memorization and more

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