Gusto·Software Engineer

Gusto Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Positive

San Francisco, CAPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After I applied, I was only moved forward after a Codesignal GCA-style assessment that wasn’t automatic.

Once I passed, I got pulled into two technical rounds that were both leetcode-flavored questions drawn from the company’s tagged topics. The rounds felt sequential and fairly structured: I solved, reviewed my approach, and kept going to the next step when I cleared the previous one.

After the technical portion, I did two 30-minute behavioral interviews. One focused on “tell me about a time” style storytelling, and the other was more situational—more like “what would you do if…” scenarios tied to how I’d operate day to day. Overall, the difficulty felt manageable but deliberate; the process

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