Note: This is the first post in a multi-part series about the evolution of our Javascript application over time. Here are parts 2 [https://engineering.gusto.com/evolving-javascript-part-2-hello-react/] and parts 3 [https://engineering.gusto.com/evolving-javascript-part-3-building-a-react-application]. The advancements
We recently hosted our first tech talk at Gusto! One of our engineers, Nikhil Mathew [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhilmat] (pictured above), spoke about the journey Gusto went on to scale our massive front-end application. In particular,
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
Back in September, the engineers at Gusto [https://gusto.com] (formerly ZenPayroll) made a public commitment to increase diversity within our team [https://engineering.gusto.com/diversity-in-zenpayrolls-engineering-team/]. As a first step, we set a goal to raise the
The Gusto engineering team has been growing quickly and we've been excited with all the amazing software engineers that recently made a decision to join us. But there was also a simple observation that someone made:
Do you believe in aliens or ghosts? What about alien ghosts? What about ghostly aliens? These were the tough and passionately debated questions bounced around at lunch on my first day. It’s amazing how much you can
Note: This is the first post of a 2-part series. As with any tech startup just getting off the ground, Gusto started with a very small engineering team in 2012. Communication overhead was low and very little got
Here at ZenPayroll, writing software that pays tens of thousands of employees across the country inspires us as engineers to write bullet-proof code. As a team, we are committed to putting in the extra time to make our
