Gusto Software Developer reviews

3.6

52% would recommend to a friend

(56 total reviews)

Joshua Reeves

54% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Gusto with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 56 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Gusto is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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56 reviews
5.0
May 7, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* Pro-active organization with plenty to learn and do * Engineering Leaders are genuinely thoughtful and they seem to care about the employee * Smart, passionate and technical individuals to learn from * An actual investment in their onboarding experience that reflects how importantly they think of their R&D team * Optimistic outlook with the track record to back it

Cons

* Haven't been here long enough to notice anything I don't like

2.0
Mar 13, 2026

In decline

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Decent comp - Higher level staff can WFH but only 3 out of 5 days.

Cons

- No hope of IPO and liquidity events are rare. - Talent is leaving but slowly due to crummy job market - Refusal to address underlying infrastructure issues in favor of new features that release to mixed customer reception. - Company tracks number of PRs opened, closed, merged as a performance metric, promotions have already been given based on these metrics. - Directionless AI mandates. Every engineer meeting is how LLMs will replace us but then no official guidance and what we're supposed to do and what processes require LLMs in a mandatory sense. - Increasing pressure on performance with associated metrics now being tracked but the metrics are useless. - C Suite and Board of Directors heavy LLM boosters with ties to other LLM companies - Official communications stating LLMs will take over the entire software lifecycle and error handling recovery aspects of the job. Which seems dangerous given the sensitivity of data we handle.

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