Gusto·Software Engineer

Gusto Software Engineer interview experience

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San Francisco, CAPosted Dec 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The process kicked off with a general phone screen with a recruiter focused on my general interest and some technical background.

After that, I had a technical phone screen using codepad.

The questions themselves weren’t extremely hard, but the awkward part was how the technical conversation was run. They explained the problem and corner cases over the phone while simultaneously dropping in a lot of self-explanatory test code into the codepad document. It was a lot to digest while I was expected to think out loud on the other side of the line.

I didn’t get past the technical screen, and my honest reflection was that the format made it harder to stay fully focused, even though the substance of the coding questions

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