Pros: Individual contributors are typically very friendly, hardworking, and care for each other as well as for customers.

Cons: - Management is tone-deaf and brutal at times (layoffs, benefits removal advertised as "improvements"). - No clear vision from the top. A myopic horizon is often preferred by product managers and managers so they can hit their promotion incentives, which are not crafted to encourage risk-taking or long-term projects.

Pros: The company is growing and doing well. If you can hang on for the long term.

Cons: Workloads can be stressful, as is probably true for any high-growth company.

Pros: - High opportunity for impact - Smart, talented, hard-working people (at least in Engineering, Product, and Design) - Growing company with promising business prospects - Big focus on culture in both hiring and the way the company is run

Cons: - Some churn and difficulty in teams outside of Engineering/Product, like Sales. - Classic startup work/life balance challenges. Because of the opportunity for impact and leadership, the team is full of people who are perfectly okay with 60+ hour work weeks. This can make you feel obligated to work a lot as well. - Work on the engineering team is pretty simple. There will probably be more interesting work to do in the future as the product and user-base matures, but most of the work being done right now is fairly simple. This is, of course, true at a lot of Silicon Valley companies and is not unique to Gusto. Nonetheless, for someone interested in technical growth (as opposed to managerial growth), it can seem limiting.