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      Staff Software Engineer Interview

      18 Mar 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Gusto

      Interview

      I scheduled a call with the recruiter but when the time for it came, no one called and I instead received an email from the recruiter 10 minutes after the scheduled time saying he had been "pulled into an urgent meeting just now." We rescheduled for Friday afternoon of the following week, but again when the time came no one called. About fifteen minutes after the agreed upon time, I received an email from the recruiter saying he had the flu. He requested my availability for Monday, and I provided a six hour window. The interview confirmation I received was for a time outside of the availability window I had given, but at least this time around the recruiter actually called. It was a pretty standard recruiter screen and it seemed to go well. The recruiter told me he would be meeting with the hiring team within the next couple days and would get back to me with an update by the end of the week. I followed up early the next week when I hadn't received an update, and then again the following week when my first follow up didn't receive a response. I didn't directly receive a response to my second follow up, but the day after I did receive a boiler plate rejection email from a generic Gusto address. The recruiter's general incompetence made me wonder if my application had ever even made it to the right person, so I figured out who the hiring manager was and messaged him directly on LinkedIn. He confirmed that my resume had made it to his inbox but said that he had probably "screened it out quickly" because I hadn't listed the tech stack for each of my previous roles and thus it was not sufficiently clear to him that I had Rails experience. FWIW Ruby and Rails are both listed in the skills section at the end of my resume; no other languages or frameworks are listed. My cover letter also discussed both my familiarity with Gusto's engineering blog posts on Rails topics and a specific example of a project I had done involving deep knowledge of Rails, but doubtless the hiring manager didn't actually read the cover letter. Apparently he just expected "Ruby on Rails" to be plastered in all caps all over the resume. Anyway, the job seemed interesting but given that all my actual interactions with people at the company were negative, I'm not really disappointed about not getting the job.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      I don't specifically remember what the recruiter asked me - it was all generic recruiter screen stuff. Basically making sure I didn't blatantly lie on my resume and that I have the kind of background that would be a fit for the role (e.g. making sure I have Rails experience). Why did I spend 25 minutes on the phone talking about my previous experience if that information wasn't going to be passed along to the hiring manager, who instead used the "glance at the resume for 5 seconds and default to 'no' if I don't see exactly what I expect" heuristic to do his own screening? That's a good question. If I was involved in hiring at Gusto I would probably make some changes to that process.
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      Other Staff Software Engineer interview reviews for Gusto

      Staff Software Engineer Interview

      22 Feb 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Gusto in Jan 2026

      Interview

      Had a call with recruiter. We chatted for about 30 minutes and he said he will schedule the next interview. Got an email confirmation for next interview. Nobody joined and then the recruiter ghosted me and did not reply to my email asking why nobody joined the call.

      Staff Software Engineer Interview

      12 July 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Gusto (New York, NY) in July 2025

      Interview

      I applied online and was contacted by an internal recruiter. We scheduled an introductory call, which went very well—the recruiter was pleasant and made a genuine effort to match me with a role aligned with my current objectives. The subsequent live coding interview also went well from my perspective, though I was ultimately not selected to move forward. Throughout the process, everyone I interacted with was kind and accommodating. Overall, I am very pleased with the experience.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Gusto has a payroll to distribute. Given the amount of current funds to distribute and a hash table of recipients your task is to calculate the even distribution of the funds. No need for an OOP solution, just code a function to do it, Note: Order of distribution does not matter. amount - total funds to distribute recipients - {recipient: money owed} Examples. amount = 40 recipients = {a: 10, b: 5, c: 10, d: 8} output = {a: 10, b: 5, c: 10, d: 8} amount = 30 recipients = {a: 10, b: 5, c: 10, d: 8} output = {a: 9, b: 5, c: 9, d: 7} or output = {a: 9, b: 4, c: 9, d: 8} amount = 20 recipients = {a: 10, b: 5, c: 10, d: 8} output = {a: 5, b: 5, c: 5, d: 5} amount = 10 recipients = {a: 10, b: 5, c: 10, d: 8} output = {a: 2, b: 2, c: 3, d: 3}
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