Gusto reviews

- Gusto is in the process of acquiring our company and they've been pretty bad throughout the process - Won't give clear answers on the specifics of our work or benefits - We have people all over the US on our team, working 9am-5pm in our respective timezones, but Gusto now expects us to work schedules within 6am-6pm MST - Unpaid lunch, 30 min lunch break - Moving many of us from a salaried to hourly role -- hourly employees get an abysmal amount of accrued vacation/sick time whereas salaried get flex/unltimited (15 day vacation for 1-5 year tenure is a sin) - No 401k match but they're aqcuiring 401k company? - Forcing a hybrid schedule on anyone who's within a certain area of one of their hubs (the metric for that area is unclear) - Gusto has had 17 rounds of funding and is still not ready for IPO.... - They're putting way too much money and energy into the AI bubble - Pay is terrible for the size and prevalance of the company (can't offer standard benefits but will give you a monthly AI stipend!) - Their organization for roles/management titles is a joke, and obviously works against the employee regarding raises/promotions

- headlong rush to shoehorn AI into everything, despite protests and very good reasons to avoid this - cutthroat quarterly review cycle - required "stack ranking" -- 15% of us must get "low performance" - feature factory with no regard for tech debt or platform stability - individual bosses have an outsized influence on your ability to succeed and get promoted - middle management pushes foolish pet projects forward without regard to team capacity or best practices - morale is low, and management really doesn't care