Gusto

• 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

• 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.

Keep up the transparency and focus on culture.