Don’t do it! Seriously… - Benefits Specialist Gusto Employee Review

1.0
19 Jan 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Benefits were decent. M-F schedule

Cons

The training is so useless! You ask the trainer to give actual scenarios on what you’ll be doing and they ask how will you respond to a client asking where in the service can they onboard a new employee. You will then get on the production floor and get a call asking why “whatever tax form” wasn’t filed or is missing. Only worked there a few months before being laid off. Had a different “PE” (ridiculous name for manager because they weren’t empowering anyone) for each of those months. I had a “coaching” with the newest manager stating that I was improving and doing well one week. The following week mid day they perfectly timed the layoff at the end of the benefit coverage month LOL I opted into cobra and had been paying only to find out they never sent my information over and had to miss scheduled appointments due to “no coverage.” Silly enough, that is a service that gusto provides but can’t get it right with their clients or their own employees. You don’t receive the support they claim to give, just told to chat with a captain and then they lead you in circles that just irritate the clients.

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5.0
10 June 2026
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Pros

Smart and friendly coworkers. Excellent team culture

Cons

Tunnel visions on AI a bit too much

2.0
20 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The product is genuinely good, too bad the same can’t be said for how they treat the people who sell it.

Cons

Leadership talks a big game about people-first culture but the reality doesn’t match. The Chicago office expansion felt like a poorly thought-out experiment, new hires were brought on without a clear long-term commitment, and layoffs came without warning, leaving people blindsided. Crossing a billion dollars in revenue and still cutting employees sends a clear message about where workers rank on the priority list. Remote work flexibility is also a glaring weakness. For a company selling HR software to modern businesses, their internal stance on where employees can work is surprisingly rigid and hypocritical. The “flexibility” messaging is mostly optics. The broader concern is the AI roadmap. The automation push feels less like an innovation strategy and more like a slow wind-down of the workforce. Employees aren’t blind to it, it creates anxiety and erodes trust. The culture of transparency they promote externally is largely a facade internally.

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