Gusto reviews

I wouldn’t recommend working here or using this platform if you are a small business. Myself and everyone I know here is looking for new jobs. It feels like no one has any idea what they are doing here. The management staff is really young, most are first time managers I’m assuming and it really shows. Despite having a young management staff it is almost impossible to move up. If you ask about career pathways they just kind of shrug their shoulders. They are forcing the majority but not all of their staff back to the office. Rules on this could be different even if you are in the same position which isn’t fair in my opinion. They give little to no real feedback but are somehow micromanaging. I’m not sure how that is even possible. The work is really hard, and even harder given no training at all. Unlimited PTO sounds amazing however it’s really difficult to use that when they are constantly requiring overtime. I didn’t even know it was legal to require OT but it is and you can expect that often. If you are going to require someone to work 50 hours a week you should probably make them salary and pay them what they are worth. There are so many other jobs with better pay and better cultures. My only advice is to not work here.

"Humans are not resources". Funny that the biggest mantra at the company that the leadership and everyone else who's drowned in the cool aid preaches on the regular yet that's exactly how they treat their own employees. If you can make it through their rigorous Interview process, congrats. You're part of the "lucky 1%" who apply and end up joining. The company does a great job of making you feel like you're joining a "family" but after your first couple of weeks, your "family" is already too busy welcoming the next batch of new hires to care about you. If you don't start working on some highly visible projects, you'll be seen as not contributing and likely start getting flagged as a replaceable resource. The amount of Stanford nepotism at the company is insane. Good luck moving up the ranks if you didn't go to Stanford for undergrad or get an mba there. Pretty much 99% of the young leadership went there and it's disgusting how high their noses are sometimes. There are way too many smart people there doing mindless work just for the company name. Morale is incredibly low across multiple teams but their managers aka PE's (people empowerer) get them to truck along with the false promise of switching teams and taking on more responsibilities. The term "PE" is a joke. They don't empower you to do anything. If you saying anything negative about the work you're doing or the company, you'll get shunned from your "family". Don't believe the 5-star reviews on here. They're likely all from the HR team or written by new hires in their first week since that's one of the to dos when you join. Seriously? I'm glad there are more and more honest reviews on here since the company doesn't actually care about their employees. They work you day and night and on weekends without any remorse. The ceo has openly said he doesn't believe in work life balance because if you love your job, there's no difference. If you're looking at joining this company, be sure to bring up all the negative reviews you read here and vet them as much as they vet you. My biggest regret is not doing that when I interviewed.