Guidewire·Software Engineer

Guidewire Software Engineer interview experience

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Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with an online assessment that had two programming tasks in Java—one was a simple shuffle-number style problem, and the other was seat selection that required careful handling of multiple test cases.

I treated it like straightforward coding, but once I passed it I was pulled into video interviews.

In the video round, the coding challenge was more “software-like” than just a quick algorithm: I had to implement an iterator for a license plate class that validates inputs. The constructor needed to check that a given plate string matched the expected format (like a two-character state prefix plus six digits), and the iterator logic needed to respect validity rules and edge cases.

The rest of the interview experience depended heavily on the mechanics of the call. In one round I had screen

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