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One of the benefits we have at Gusto is a one-month paid sabbatical after five years of employment with the company. As a co-founder of the company, I was among the first employees to be eligible to take the sabbatical. As someone who’s never taken so much time off…
About a year ago, we published the results and shared some learnings from a concerted effort to build a more diverse and inclusive engineering team at Gusto. More recently, we’re proud to share that we have 50/50 gender balance in our incoming cohort of 2017 recent college graduate…
We recently hosted our first tech talk at Gusto! One of our engineers, Nikhil Mathew (pictured above), spoke about the journey Gusto went on to scale our massive front-end application. In particular, he covered our decision to move from Backbone.js to React.js, and from the Rails Asset Pipeline…
How do you transform your engineering culture? It starts by finding the thing that stitches you together. For our team, that bond comes from a culture of helping others. Over the years, Silicon Valley has churned out programmers who think about everything but that. Since engineers are generally hard to…
Back in September, the engineers at Gusto (formerly ZenPayroll) made a public commitment to increase diversity within our team. As a first step, we set a goal to raise the number of full-time female engineers from 11% to 18% — the same number of female computer science majors in this country.…