I applied online. A recruiter replied quickly and set up a phone interview with the hiring manager. At the end of that phone interview, the manager asked me to send writing samples to the recruiter. When I tried, my message bounced, so I tried to submit them through the online-application web site. This seemed to work, but to be sure, I left voicemail for the recruiter, telling her what I had done and asking her to verify that she had received my samples. That was months ago. I never heard from the recruiter or anyone else at Guidewire again.

The writing team was stellar, recruiting not so much. The sourcer IMed me 6 times with the canned template during the course of the hiring process, 5 of which were while I was in talks with them and one as late as the morning of the offer. It mitigated the experience. The talent team didn’t have a good grip on how negotiations should go. I felt pushed to reveal my cards instead of them offering a reasonable package from the outset. Why play games.