Things got shaky, but back on track - Anonymous employee Gusto Employee Review

4.0
29 Jan 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Extremely passionate and talented people. Work-life balance is getting to be where it should be. Talent is being used in a more efficient manner- no more everyone doing everything (well, not as much)

Cons

Benefits have been reduced. Cutting the 401k hurt and is pretty shortsighted. Pay is about average and starting to lag, yet is still lauded as if it's stellar. Promotion seems to be based things other than skill, leading to a lot of incompetent managers.

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Smart and friendly coworkers. Excellent team culture

Cons

Tunnel visions on AI a bit too much

1.0
24 Jun 2026
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Pros

Free food Cool people in sales org Middle Management is cool

Cons

The amount of turnover is genuinely astonishing Some teams are hitting less than 50% of quota AI has gotten out of hand.... It's almost comical Laid off 25+ people, partially because of "AI" I can genially say upwards of 10 of the most senior sellers have ALL left in the past 12 months "Upper" sales management is lost - focusing on AI above the actual processes and operations that can grow revenue No 401(k) 2 of 65+ GPRO reps in '2025 went to Presidents Club NO VALUE IN SALES TRAINING Rev-Opp's calls all the shots for partner sales - and they have not made any decisions that have driven an increase in revenue. Upper management and Rev Opp's stopped a majority of lead sources for Account Executives, expanded quotas, fired middle management, and fired the entire team. I would avoid working at Gusto at all costs.

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