Guidewire Software Engineer interview experience

The coding problems weren’t completely unfamiliar; one of them was similar to something I’d come across in a forum discussion, and the second was a variant of a “maximum subarray” style problem where it gave two subarray length parameters.

I worked through the OA, but performance wasn’t great in my view, so HR scheduled an additional video interview via Zoom. That follow-up wasn’t purely algorithmic—it had me use an IntelliJ IDE and write or modify code based on a more real-world scenario. The intention felt like they wanted to see how I handled the same core skills once I had more