Guidewire Software Engineer interview experience

I had two complex tasks, each with an allocated completion time of only 35 minutes. What made it especially brutal was that the difficulty wasn’t obvious ahead of time, and the time estimates didn’t reflect how intricate the problems turned out to be.

I managed to adjust one task so it could compile, but it still didn’t pass their tests, and once the timer hit zero the round was effectively over. The whole experience felt brutally unforgiving, and because I couldn’t get either challenge over the line, the end result was rejection without an offer. The hardest part wasn’t just the coding—it