Guidewire Software Leadership Employee Reviews
What do you like best about the leadership team?
Open door policy and easy to approach
Review from HR Dept
Leadership team always supportive and look for improvement.
Review from Engineering Dept
They have a clear vision that I believe is the right direction.
Review from Engineering Dept
They seem collaborative and open to exploring new ideas, especially around AI and innovation.
Review from HR Dept
My direct manager and VP are absolutely superb leaders. Very high EQ and a lot of experience. I can always count on them for support and they also coach me to ensure I am constantly developing.
Review from Operations Dept
Always have clear vision and mission for the company
Review from Engineering Dept
Their transparency. They communicate openly about changes, future plans, and the company’s overall vision, making sure all employees
Review from Customer Success Dept
They exhibits Openness, trust & innovative spirit
Review from IT Dept
Approachable and open with the team. They are forward looking and ambitious.
Review from Customer Support Dept
Clear vision for the product roadmap
Review from HR Dept
My immediate manager is extremely supportive and empowers her team to be their best self.
Review from HR Dept
TRANSPARENCY HAS INCREASED OVER THE LAST 2 YEARS
Review from HR Dept
What I value most about the leadership team is their strong mission alignment, approachable nature, and collaborative spirit, which together create an environment of trust and shared growth.
Review from Marketing Dept
How open they are, how genuine they are, and how much they seem to care about culture and employee well being.
Review from Operations Dept
They are very approachable and appear down to earth
Review from Operations Dept
When they're portraying the business, the don't use fancy words that mean nothing, but they're using data and actual sentences that mean something.
Review from Product Dept
Open to hear all views.
Review from Product Dept
Work from office for Bangalore is the worst decision. It does not make any sense to come to office spending 4-5 hours on the road. We can use the same time productively at home working.. the LT should rethink this mandate.
Review from IT Dept
They have a passion for our industry and a passion for helping us, as employees, be successful in our current roles.
Review from HR Dept
Guidewire's leadership team is passionate about the company's success, while also maintaining a strong focus on the employees that enable our success.
Review from Communications Dept
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Leadership needs to become more connected to the realities of day-to-day work and take into consideration all feedback before rolling out programmes that will only hurt compensation, such as taking away LTI from the lowest paid people.
Review from Admin Dept
Compensation, benefits, listening to employee feedback, preserving employee goodwill
Review from Engineering Dept
Communication. And constant reorganization is exhausting. Changes are done and then explained instead of the opposite way so nobody knows what's going on and employees lose trust. Bad organizational change management processes.
Review from Customer Support Dept
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.
Review from Engineering Dept
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.
Review from Engineering Dept
Balancing compensation compared to comparably sized tech companies, improved communication and feedback gathering about big changes
Review from IT Dept
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.
Review from Engineering Dept
Communication and openness The collegiality and rationality are evaporating from our culture.
Review from Operations Dept
Speak more candidly about the long-term plan. The term, 'India' drops into conversations casually, despite efforts to reassure the team in the States that they have any future here. We haven't meaningfully hired for junior PS positions in years and benefits are degrading in real value.
Review from Customer Success Dept
should meet and talk to people/do skip meetings
Review from Operations Dept
Well, we have VPMOM which in theory is a great way to get everyone on the same page. But the leadership team cannot work together to prioritize. Our CTO is unable and unwilling to work his peers on established priorities and makes decisions completely on his own that jeopardize our strategic goals
Review from HR Dept
Evaluating fair salary. Being continually told that the company is doing extremely well and breaking financial targets is frustrating when it goes along with messages that pay will continue to be below average, and that skilled people leaving is somehow good.
Review from Product Dept
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.
Review from Engineering Dept
stop making too many changes too fast and pay attention to the employee morale
Review from Product Dept
provide more opportunities for professional development or advancement
Review from Finance Dept
Stop micro managing, care more for the employees, not everything is profit and I would like to see executive team to follow Guidewire's 4 core values.
Review from Customer Support Dept
Compensation. Bring back LTI taken away from us.
Review from Product Dept
Being transparent and open with employees
Review from HR Dept
Transparency, better communications, improve salary package.
Review from Product Dept
Understanding technology and invest in better tools and technology so the cost of GWCP can go down
Review from Operations Dept