Guidewire Software Engineering Department Employee Reviews
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What do you like best about the leadership team?
Leadership team always supportive and look for improvement.
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They have a clear vision that I believe is the right direction.
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Always have clear vision and mission for the company
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super supportive and goal oriented
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Compensation, benefits, listening to employee feedback, preserving employee goodwill
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The leadership team needs to significantly improve their communication by being more transparent about company decisions and providing regular updates to all employees. They should create better channels for two-way communication where employees feel comfortable sharing their concerns.
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There are two key issues in GW. First, high performers are not rewarded properly, because GW equalizes pay, so there's no reason to overperform, since mediocrity it rewarded just as much. Second issue, execs talk big but there's hardly ever enough time and/or resources provided to do work well.
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The pay scale is extremely low for the level of responsbility in the role. This has been true for years now, even as the company brags about financial success.
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Currently leadership is focused on cost cutting and they are not looking at employee productivity metrics which is excellent measure to cut the extra cost.
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What is the best part about your compensation package?
LTI would be the best part and make different from other companies. With proper LTI packages, that would helps to retain talents in the company.
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The rate is higher than the average I suppose
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additional benefits and fair compensation
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The LTI and bonus based on performance.
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wellness benefit is really nice to have
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Accomplishments are only acknowledged in private and do not result in more compensation or career advancement
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Because its not enough, I'd feel better if it was more
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Less working hours, more PTO time
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I feel undervalued because I did not receive any salary increase in the last few years, despite the rising cost of living and inflation. To feel better about my compensation, I would like: Fair salary increases that align with inflation rates to maintain my purchasing power.
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It's a relatively well-known fact that GW pays under the market rate. This used to be compensated by having great company culture and other office perks. But now, in-office perks are pretty much gone, also, GW has been cutting financial benefits as well, for example, recent cut in LTI bonuses.
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What are some of the best things about your team?
My team is always helpful and committed to work. Each member is willing to share their knowledge and help others at all time.
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The engineering teams always seem to help each other and work towards the common goal so that everyone succeeds.
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Helpful, responsive, knowledgeable and admitting things that they don't know.
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The culture at GW is its biggest strength, which is maintained and represented in its employees. The collegiality and interpersonal aspects of the culture are great but failure to motivate and address issues is lessening this more and more every year
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supportive, friendly, kind, caring, good team spirit, ready to help
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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Team activities or projects together
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There are some amazing and capable people, a lot depends on the team
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Cross region interactions have been improving but still need time to develop.
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
Collegiality. Everyone take collective responsibilities for their roles and work toward the company goals. As always, I feel connected and could easily get helps from anyone around the company.
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The engineering teams have a sense of camaraderie. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to continue as you go up the hierarchy
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Friendly colleague and comfortable workspace
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The people are the most positive aspect
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inclusive and open to new ideas, supportive and always ready to help
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Get rid of the command and control management style pretty much everywhere in the company. Also need to replace some of our sr. management who create that culture by their actions.
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I think encouraging activities between people of common/similar interest is the easiest way to foster relationship. Things like hackatons or friendly competitions that encourage teamwork and at the same time we can learn from each other is great.
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What did you like most about the interview process?
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What makes you most happy at work?
Take up new challenges and solved the problems. The contribution have been recognized by leadership team.
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Working towards a clear goal with a reasonable timeline.
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When I am able to solve a hard problem that I've been trying to
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friendly environment and interest in the tasks at hand
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time to time working on interesting projects
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
GW likes to box people into very specific roles, where it's hard to further improve yourself outside of these very specific tasks. So, even if you are busy, you can be very bored, doing repetitive stuff over and over again.
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I'm constantly feeling pressured to work unreasonable hours and to jobs that are outside my role's responsibilities. Being fully remote can also feel completely isolating
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Manager is not helpful in nature and doesn't help me grow
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Pay more. Give developers more responsibility. If you have someone making design decisions (such as software architects) and the team *is not present* that is *NOT* agile. Fundamentally. Not a single design decision should be made without the opportunity for the dev team to oppose it.
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PDO's hybrid return-to-office adds many hours of travel time each week. The commute and the need to be physically present instead of mentally focused on my work significantly reduces my job satisfaction.
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