Gusto·Software Engineer

Gusto Software Engineer interview experience

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Portland, ORPosted Aug 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My early recruiter conversation sounded like I was interviewing for a Software Engineer position, but the process ended up tied to a company the team had acquired.

After the recruiter coordination, the technical interview portion happened using a browser-style coding environment where I paired with an interviewer.

A part of the experience that really threw me off was logistics: the audio quality on one technical call was so poor I had to repeatedly ask the interviewer to repeat themselves. I pushed through anyway, but it made it harder to perform well and meant the whole discussion didn’t flow smoothly.

Separately, I also ran into cases where the recruiter experience felt inconsistent with the details of the role being discussed, and the timeline

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