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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1.0
Dec 18, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Employment and sub-par health insurance (for now)

Cons

This company puts a stark divide between the exempt and non-exempt employees. To say that the non-exempt employees are treated like second class citizens is generous. With the recent take over of Guideline, we are told that the changes aren't going to be significant but the metrics have shot up while they try to ram AI down our throats. Because of the plan changes we have more angry callers than ever to add on top of the expected busy season volume. No time to break during the day with 30 minute lunch breaks now. PTO? Good luck with that especially after they reneged on the promise that they'd honor any PTO requests through the end of the year. The biggest con is knowing that they will lay off a good portion of the CX team after April. Why hire and onboard dozens of new CX on the day of the acquisition and pay at a rates at least $15 per hour less than anyone who came over from Guideline. It's insulting the rates that they pay in the NYC and Bay Areas. It's written clear as day but kept under hush so now its the hunger games of metrics to "try" to survive what's coming but in the end it won't matter if you've peer trained your replacements and they've 50-75% your salary

1.0
Jan 19, 2025

Don’t do it! Seriously…

Recommend
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Pros

Benefits were decent. M-F schedule

Cons

The training is so useless! You ask the trainer to give actual scenarios on what you’ll be doing and they ask how will you respond to a client asking where in the service can they onboard a new employee. You will then get on the production floor and get a call asking why “whatever tax form” wasn’t filed or is missing. Only worked there a few months before being laid off. Had a different “PE” (ridiculous name for manager because they weren’t empowering anyone) for each of those months. I had a “coaching” with the newest manager stating that I was improving and doing well one week. The following week mid day they perfectly timed the layoff at the end of the benefit coverage month LOL I opted into cobra and had been paying only to find out they never sent my information over and had to miss scheduled appointments due to “no coverage.” Silly enough, that is a service that gusto provides but can’t get it right with their clients or their own employees. You don’t receive the support they claim to give, just told to chat with a captain and then they lead you in circles that just irritate the clients.

1.0
May 5, 2024

Never ever work here

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Pros

Fun at first, then it gets bad.

Cons

Extremely unprofessional and borderline emotionally abusive sales leadership. I was locked in a room once and screamed at and excused from work for asking why I wasn’t being promoted while having the best stats on my team.

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