I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Gusto (Portland, OR) in Aug 2022
Interview
I applied to what I thought was an engineering position at Gusto, but it turned out to be a position at a company they acquired recently.
There was a phone screen with a company recruiter, then an interview prep call with the recruiter. The first interview was a technical paired programming interview. Then there were 5 more interviews: 2 more technical paired programming, 1 architecture interview and 2 culture and behavioral interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First interview was parsing log data to group and aggregate data sets.
Second interview was dispersing payment among a given data set with variable payment amounts and a given budget.
The architecture interview was more of a database and api design for a polling application.
The behavioral interviews were standard questions about past work experiences.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Gusto (New York, NY) in Jun 2025
Interview
Initial recruiter phone call followed by technical phone screen. Question was a simple data parsing to extract/aggregate JSON data. Interview was friendly, and wrapped up with closing questions. I received a rejection email a week later, with no details.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given the following JSON data, aggregate statistics based on the request.
I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Gusto in Mar 2025
Interview
I was surprised by how cumbersome this interview was, several rounds, on top of take home project. It's really rigorous for a company that isn't FAANG level. Honestly a take home and a discussion of a take home is enough technical signal, instead its take home, coding, take home extension live and systems design, plus values and behavioral session. It's a huge time investment for pay and benefits that are not very competitive.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Gusto (New York, NY) in Jan 2025
Interview
medium difficulty, or easier if you look up the q+a's before. one interviewer was late, and had the nerve to mark off points for time. so i did not get a job.
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Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Gusto with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 43% positive. To compare, the company-average is 50.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 23 days to get hired, when considering 86 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Gusto overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Gusto as a Software Engineer according to 86 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 35%
One on one interview: 22%
Skills test: 17%
Presentation: 9%
Personality test: 5%
Background check: 5%
Drug test: 3%
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