Worried about layoffs and hiring freezes across tech. have an offer for a SWE role for a role at StateFarm #engineering but it’s for a JVM language called gosu for an GuideWire application. Anyone from state farm have any guidance? I’m worried about being pigeonholed. Is this a good team or a bad career choice. My experience is Java, Python and micro services mostly backend. Yoe 3, TC 125 Offer 130 #engineering #software #swe
Worked at SF on one of the first teams to use Guidewire. Good for coasting, not good for growth. Could probably get to their version of staff engineer relatively easy, but the pay is meh for that role and not much to do from there
Negotiate for a higher salary. Is it remote? Gosu is a language built on top of Java so there’s many similarities but it’s more insurance based towards the GuideWire application. Maybe look at keeping both jobs until u get a better sense of what you like? Feel free to dm me.
Guidewire is only good for more guidewire, it's not exactly a big resume builder. But there are a lot of teams in that area and most do other work in addition to the guidewire crap. So you might see more micro service work, maybe some frontend react work, etc.
You do NOT want to be using Gosu. Awful. Pigeonhole-y as fuck. Decline offer if you have others available, even if the TC is lower.
I agree with you I think I am passing. Gut feeling and all the thread responses are leaning me this way. Thanks
Almost everything in statefarm is not good for growth but good for coasting and some job security.
You changed jobs for almost no tc increase?
Startup is a sinking ship more layoffs incoming, TC not a priority.