Gusto reviews

3.1

44% would recommend to a friend

(277 total reviews)

Joshua Reeves

49% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

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2.0
Jan 30, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Hot startup, meals, Silicon Valley darling

Cons

Meaningless culture buzzwords, frequent random firings, wrongly attributed culpability, lack of career development, poor leadership, below market compensation, biased Glassdoor reviews (asked to post in your first week), tedious work, poor prioritization of engineering efforts, Stanford duck syndrome, minimal talent

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Thank you for your feedback on being an employee at Gusto. We would love to understand your perspective better and talk about ways we can improve the concerns you raised. Related to writing Glassdoor reviews, we very much appreciate the feedback and apologies for any miscommunication - it’s intended to be specific to reviewing the interview experience - moving forward, we’ll ask for this feedback in training run by our recruiting team to avoid this misunderstanding. We have grown quickly over the last few months, with 80% of the company having started in the last 12 months. Through AMAs, bi-weekly company meetings, regular surveys and hopefully the ability to speak directly and honestly with leadership or the People team, we hope there are avenues to share these opinions internally as well. Developing our people is a major focus in 2016, and we have only really scratched the surface thus far. We hope you’ll be candid with us internally and reach out, as we’d love to partner with you to improve not only your experience, but the experience of everyone at Gusto, too.
5.0
Dec 17, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- everyone is genuinely nice, friendly, intelligent, and hardworking - very flexible work hours and unlimited vacation - very flat organizational structure (we don't use the word "manager", and my team lead feels much more like a peer than a boss) - frequent team outings (bars, woodworking) - great compensation - transparent CEO and organizational structure - amazing food in the office (best of 3 startups I've worked at), including catered lunches and dinners - flexible in terms of how you work (software used, frequency of meetings etc)

Cons

- longer hours than average (maybe 45/week for me in particular) - parts of the office space are getting a little cramped after so much growth

5.0
Dec 1, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Truly challenging and rewarding career opportunities - Ability to progress through the company - Values-driven. Gusto truly cares about building a company by doing it the right way. Something sustainable that will be around for decades. - Fun team environment and world-class employee benefits

Cons

- Pretty relentless workload, so be prepared to work hard - Average compensation (although it is slightly made up for in awesome perks)

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