Gusto·Software Engineer

Gusto Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Mar 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process included an initial telephonic screen, followed by an onsite with a mix of behavioral and coding-focused rounds.

I saw a coding deep dive that centered on a string-related task, and there was also a pair programming segment. The pair portion felt relevant to the kind of work they expected on the job.

There was a system design component too, but the scope wasn’t about extreme scalability and availability. The prompt was framed around designing for roughly 400 users, which made it feel more grounded than some system design interviews I’d experienced elsewhere.

Overall it felt reasonably structured, and I appreciated that recruiters provided a courtesy call for feedback even if the actual feedback wasn’t

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