I was referred in early August by a former coworker who is an employee.

I received a request for interview availability one week later.

1st Interview: It was a quick conversation with the recruiter about the overall process, the engineering team, and culture at Gusto. (30 minutes)

2nd Interview: I then had a "Technical Phone Assessment" that was one-on-one with an engineer. (60 minutes)

After this step, I heard nothing for about another week. When the recruiter finally emailed back, she ignored the question asking about next steps. I had to have my friend who worked there ping internally to get a response.

They eventually swapped recruiting coordinators, assigning me to someone who would respond.

After this step is the "final round":

Day 1

• 3rd Interview: Engineering Manager Interview (60 minutes)
• 4th Interview: Architectural Design Interview (75 minutes)
• 5th Interview: Work Session (90 minutes)

Day 2

• 6th Interview: Values-based interview (30 minutes)
• 7th Interview: Coding Skills Assessment (60 minutes)

Interviews 4 and 5 were supposed to have two people, but one person did not show up for each.

The values-based interview was a one-on-one, but that person also no-showed.

I guess punctuality or attendance are not values at Gusto? 🤷🏻‍♂️

I had interview #6 rescheduled for the day after Day 2 finished. This was after hounding the original, unresponsive recruiting coordinator to get it rescheduled so I could finalize the interview process.

I read a lot of reviews here about people getting ghosted or having things drag on until they felt stale, so I pushed to have it completed.

The following Monday, the technical recruiter sent an email asking if I had time for a call to go over the interview results.

I'm mostly writing this review because I scoured every interview review here to see if anyone had been rejected by phone or video call.

All of the reviews that mentioned rejections were by email or did not specify.

I was rejected by phone.

You can be rejected by phone.

If Gusto is reading this, I would much rather have been rejected by email with the option to schedule a call for feedback.

I spent 6 hours and 45 minutes interviewing with them.

Can we just shorten that by maybe 1 hour and 45 minutes?

Do you NEED 3 technicals and an architectural design?

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