I applied online. I interviewed at Guidewire in Nov 2022
No offer
Positive experience
Average interview
Application
I applied online. I interviewed at Guidewire (Dublin, Dublin) in Jul 2017
Interview
Overall all of them were nice, had to do a code test, followed by a technical interview over WebEx, than 3.5 hours of interviews face to face in the Dublin office since they ran late starting them. 1 hour with a Director, 1 hour for another technical interview/test with a Senior Consultant, 1 hour with another Senior Consultant about the environment in Guidewire (work ethics, people problem solving and the like) and half an hour with HR to round out the interview process.
The whole process took 3 months, the first round was an online coding test which contains two problems that are leetcode easy level, then the second round was to take an online zoom interview, the interviewer had me write some codes and in problem solving process I was asked solved a java problem. The third round of interview was a total nightmare, my behaviour interview and cultural interview interviewer were kind but the technical interviewer was hard to communicate with. It was hard to explain my problem solution to him, he seemed to don't understand DFS algorithm. He seemed to stick to one specific solution in his brain and couldn't accept any other solution. My solution was totally right but he didn't understand until the end of the interview and he submitted a comment that I cannot solve the problem I've been given properly and gave me a negative for the technical interview.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Guidewire (Dublin, Co. Dublin) in January 2020.
After applying online I got 1 online coding challenge. Most technical questions were reasonable.
I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Guidewire (Dublin, Dublin) in Jan 2020
Interview
Week 1 - Applied Monday and received an email back Thursday saying I was through to the next stage.
Week 2 - Received a Coding challange on Codify.com containing 2 questions to be completed in 100 minutes in Java. After I was sent an aptitude test (pretty basic).
Week 3 - Received feedback and told me I was due for a Technical on the phone Interview with a manager.
Week 4 - Had the interview with the Manager and he asked me many Java related questions. After he got me to code a little and then asked me some more questions.
Week 5 - Got a response saying I'm not what they are looking for.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical Questions:
- What does Static mean?
- What does public, private mean in Java?
- What is an abstract variable and why do you use it.
- What is a 3 tier architecture?
- Explain OOP in java
- What is Overloading when compered to Overriding?
- What is a hashmap?
- What is a collection?
- Why do you use linked lists?
Java online test:
- Taking a string and parsing the data into a list to then change it back into a string and print the answer.
- An array of numbers o, find the biggest number that would divide into 5 that is not in the list. Then do it again for an N amount of numbers.
Java Live coding:
- Take a string and find how many characters it has.
- if string is below 10 letters, add enough to make it of length 10
- if the string has a number, remove the number and add enough letters to make it a length 10 string
Overall, pretty basic questions. Nothing you havn't already done in college.
