Guidewire Software Bangalore

Role: Staff Software Engineer

College: Not Specified

Interview Date: February 2024

Interview Type: Full-Time

Result: Rejected

Difficulty: Hard (implied by candidate's experience with hiring manager)

Rounds: 2 rounds (Codility Challenge, Behavioral with Pair Programming)

Topics Asked: Coding, Behavioral (manager/teammate quality, reporting structure), Pair Programming

Experience:

The interview process for a Staff Software Engineer role in Bengaluru, Karnataka, started with a 90-minute Codility challenge. The second round was a behavioral interview combined with pair programming. The candidate described the hiring manager in this round as "very rude" and impatient, cutting the one-hour interview short to 40 minutes after taking 15 minutes for self-introduction. The manager showed little interest in the candidate's experience and hurried them through answers. During the coding test portion of this round, which involved two tasks, the manager asked the candidate to switch to Task 1 after starting Task 2 and then showed no interest in the provided solution. Behavioral questions asked included inquiries about the good and bad qualities of the current manager, current teammates, and the candidate's reporting structure. The experience was rated as negative, with a 0% success rate mentioned for this role in Bengaluru, Karnataka, indicating an extremely selective process.