Gusto reviews

3.1

44% would recommend to a friend

(1,117 total reviews)

Joshua Reeves

50% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Gusto has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,117 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Gusto employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1K reviews
1.0
Mar 3, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- colleagues - benefits (PTO, health & employee benefits) - nice office

Cons

So many. -they didnt pay me my commission payout on time. When I told them they didn’t and threatened they were out of compliance they said it was being sent, but late. This caused me to be late on my rent, my car payment and an emergency vet bill. I still haven’t received pay today after they said I would so I’m hoping to pay my bills soon. I worked so hard and to have my payment delayed shows they don’t care about people. Especially the people they work with. - Micromanagement. Managers will book calls over your blocks, admin time & OOO without asking - if you are OOO they may forget to take you off the new customer router, I came back from a 2 week vacation to MANY emails from new customers requesting a new CSM since they got my OOO email. - If you are in CS, in my opinion, you are just a support navigator. Everyday I came in to 35+ emails with support questions. My job was to tell them to email support. - They allowed companies with 1+ EE to join premium and get a CSM which made my workload go from 7-8hour days to 12-14 hour days. - I was told multiple times that we would not get smaller books and we should actually have bigger books as CSM’s I’ve been a CSM for 6+ years and have never had a book that goes above 300+ not even 200+ - How do you get a new Director of CS and within a year he is still here but 3/4 of your team isn’t and now the ENTIRE department feels suffocated and burnt out but he still runs that workstream? How does that make sense from a business and org perspective? - Pay is extremely low for the area and for the work load. Working 12+ hours a day and having 30% of your pay depend on another team is crazy. - when I first started we were hosting 20-30 calls a quarter. Now they are asking we hold this amount every week with outbound dials. I can go on and on about the egregious work environment that is Gusto. Systems that don’t make sense. Pay that isn’t equitable. Managers who don’t care about you as a human being but as a money making machine for themselves.

1.0
May 4, 2024

TERRIBLE!!

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Most of my colleagues are wonderful, and the benefits are good. Nothing else!

Cons

Leadership in the Denver office is biased, with a culture that promotes bullying and cliques. Managers often lack the necessary experience to lead teams effectively. If the higher-ups don't approve of you, you are unlikely to succeed. Even if you work hard and do your best, your efforts may go unrecognized. The situation is so bad that you might even feel like you've sold your soul to Gusto, but it still won't make a difference. Stay far away from this garbage!!

1.0
Apr 9, 2024

They train you up the let you down

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

being with the company over 2 years is a plus; work is steady and initially though there was room for growth

Cons

train employees to upset them (fire or quit) so the training wheel restarts Hiring out side for leadership instead of promoting within - Hard to get guidance from someone who does not know how to themselves Make promises (change schedule to accommodate the company needed) - that set you up for failure - I don't trust the management team or WFM at this time WFM - Is literally the time police for WFH staff yet they expect an employee to change there activities / aux and don't understand the position itself. Lately feeling like a robot in jail. Management won't listen -- they call you out on auxing but can't keep promising or low turnover --- currently and sadly looking for new role / company -- hate to start over; the training them put into me and my training team is such a waste--- only 5-6 of my initial training team remain. The renewals department doesn't take on the backlash when they screw up - calls and emails should go to that specific team but they don't --- they get misrouted and delayed in the hands of inexperienced or untrained reps. Easy way to delay the customers and blame others for the disconnect. Again the system is broken Also Gusto management seem racist

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