I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Guidewire (Birmingham, AL) in Sept 2017
Interview
HR recruiter contacted through LinkedIn saying that your skills and experience matching the position we have right now. During HR call they asked me more than twice about the offers that I had at that time. They told for phone screening technical and two days after the interview they again contacted saying your skills are very impressive and called for onsite interview. Again they asked that whether I have any offers and I had one other offer at that time. They told that they are worried about other offer before onsite interview. The interviewers looks professional because I think they have good management skills but they didn't have perfect grip on the technologies they are working on. But totally ok interview. Most funniest thing is that they denied to give you me an offer saying that you are too Jr for considering to this role because they itself called me and they played partial role in losing other offer as well. Please be careful in considering for the interview. This interview wasted my valuable time and I spent lot of money for my travel. I think God only knows the original reason to be contacted by this type of time wasting people
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Guidewire (Bengaluru) in Feb 2026
Interview
I applied in December through a referral and received a call in February. The process consisted of two in-person technical rounds conducted on the same day at the Bengaluru office.
Round 1:
This round was with a Senior Developer. The task was to implement a card game in Java. It was more like a pair-programming session rather than a DSA or system design round. The interviewer was collaborative and provided guidance when needed. I was able to implement most of the required functionality during the session.
Round 2:
This round focused on my resume, particularly my work experience and projects. There were two interviewers. I was asked to clone one of my projects onto their system and implement a new feature on the spot. In addition, they asked technical questions related to my project implementation and core concepts.
Overall, the process was hands-on and focused more on practical implementation. Expected deep understanding of every concept even for fresher role.
The rejection mail came very late, after 15 days of the interview. Also it was automated one with no clear feedback.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked to clone one of my projects and implement a new feature live during the interview.
interview process has multiple rounds. checking communication skills. checking programming skills. checking java knowledge like interacting with web application programming interfaces. different interviewers. online interview as well as on site interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you communicate with co-worker who was busy but you needed help from?
Very long and dragged out processes with minimum transparency and lots of delays in between. The recruiters are very unprofessional, spamming me constantly regarding the open job positions that they have