Gusto

Software Engineer Interview Experience

May 19, 2016

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

A recruiter set up a phone chat with me and shortly sent over a link to answer some coding questions on a Friday.

By Saturday, they expected me to complete the questions. Even after explaining that I was planning for my wedding the following week, they discontinued the interview process by Monday morning.

I was disappointed in their lack of flexibility during the interview process with such a big life event happening, and it speaks to their company culture, in my opinion.

Questions

Standard phone screen about experience.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 82 interview experiences for the Gusto Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

24%

Pass Rate

Gusto's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive44%

Neutral15%

Negative41%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Gusto's Software Engineer interview process in United States.

Gusto Work Experiences

Great place for senior engineers, poor for early career

Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

February 2, 2021

Pros: Fantastic culture of humility and learning. Loved working with everyone here, and I met some of the most brilliant people I'll ever work with.

Cons: Clear issues with management for early-career engineers (very arbitrary guidelines on what performance looks like), lack of support for CX/Sales teams, and a lack of transparency while maintaining the feeling that transparency is still there.

Great place for senior engineers, poor for early career

Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

February 2, 2021

Pros: Fantastic culture of humility and learning. Loved working with everyone here, and I met some of the most brilliant people I'll ever work with.

Cons: Clear issues with management for early-career engineers (very arbitrary guidelines on what performance looks like), lack of support for CX/Sales teams, and a lack of transparency while maintaining the feeling that transparency is still there.

Great for long-term returns

Software Engineer • Current Employee

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.

Great for long-term returns

Software Engineer • Current Employee

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.

Slow response from recruiter

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: Nice work-life balance. Not a bad salary.

Cons: The hiring process is really slow, and recruiters may reply to you once a week. If you have other better options, do not wait for this one.

Slow response from recruiter

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: Nice work-life balance. Not a bad salary.

Cons: The hiring process is really slow, and recruiters may reply to you once a week. If you have other better options, do not wait for this one.

Great place for senior engineers, poor for early career

Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

February 2, 2021

Pros: Fantastic culture of humility and learning. Loved working with everyone here, and I met some of the most brilliant people I'll ever work with.

Cons: Clear issues with management for early-career engineers (very arbitrary guidelines on what performance looks like), lack of support for CX/Sales teams, and a lack of transparency while maintaining the feeling that transparency is still there.

3.0
Great place for senior engineers, poor for early career
Software Engineer • Former Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
February 2, 2021
Pros: Fantastic culture of humility and learning. Loved working with everyone here, and I met some of the most brilliant people I'll ever work with.
Cons: Clear issues with management for early-career engineers (very arbitrary guidelines on what performance looks like), lack of support for CX/Sales teams, and a lack of transparency while maintaining the feeling that transparency is still there.

Great for long-term returns

Software Engineer • Current Employee

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.

5.0
Great for long-term returns
Software Engineer • Current Employee
May 21, 2021
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.

Slow response from recruiter

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: Nice work-life balance. Not a bad salary.

Cons: The hiring process is really slow, and recruiters may reply to you once a week. If you have other better options, do not wait for this one.

2.0
Slow response from recruiter
Software Engineer • Former Employee
May 9, 2022
Pros: Nice work-life balance. Not a bad salary.
Cons: The hiring process is really slow, and recruiters may reply to you once a week. If you have other better options, do not wait for this one.

Gusto Interview Questions

Time Based Key-Value Store

Design a key-value store that supports storing values with timestamps. You should be able to retrieve the latest value for a key that's less than or equal to a given timestamp.

ArraysBinary Search

Add Bold Tag in String

You're given a string and a list of keywords. Your task is to add bold tags around all occurrences of those keywords in the string.

Integer to English Words

Convert a non-negative integer into its English word representation. For example, 12345 should be converted to 'Twelve Thousand Three Hundred Forty Five'.

ArraysStringsRecursion

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