How to communicate with your network — As a junior engineer at Gousto, I have the opportunity to attend bi-monthly training days which help me and my colleagues build on our strengths and develop our careers. The theme for this month’s workshop was communication and building relationships at work, skills which are essential at every level of…

As a B Corp, Gousto publishes an annual Impact Report, illustrating the positive impact that the company is making on people and the planet. You can read our 2022 Impact Report here. It shows Gousto’s achievements across key areas such as food waste, health and packaging, demonstrating our social and…

Gousto’s Unbox tribe is responsible for getting boxes into customers’ homes. The tribe’s mission is to create an unrivalled unboxing experience with impeccable design, quality, and cutting-edge sustainability to continue pleasing customers as the company grows. One of the primary objectives for Unbox in 2023 has been scaling operations, with…

Menu and Food, Supply and Network The second in our Superday series is the Choice tribe, which is responsible for bringing a wide selection of high quality recipes to customers every week. The tribe is split into two focus areas: food strategy and supply strategy. The Kimchis and Radishes Tech…

The Gousto Parents community has been established to amplify the voices of parents at Gousto and build a support network for colleagues with children. We recently welcomed Anna Whitehouse, founder of Mother Pukka to speak to the Parents community about flexible working, parenting and work life balance, and were charmed…

We are proud to celebrate diversity at Gousto and believe authenticity means being true to yourself, your personality, and your values. As part of a series of events organised throughout the company during Pride month, a group of colleagues came together earlier this week to share their experiences of bringing…

I recently spoke on an alumni panel during Le Wagon’s Careers Week, where four recent graduates answered questions about how we navigated the early months post bootcamp and eventually landed our first coding jobs. When I was doing the bootcamp, I always found it really interesting to hear about people’s…

You know when you start learning something new and immediately consider yourself an expert? There’s a name for that. The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias where people overestimate their abilities. It usually refers to beginners who are unable to recognise their own ignorance or incompetence. The term was coined…

In March, Le Wagon hosted their first ever Hackathon. Despite the fact that I’d been coding non-stop for 10 weeks and had just finished an unexpectedly intense Careers Week, I decided to take part. ‘Careers Week will be chilled’, the organiser had promised. ‘The Hackathon will be fun!’ So at…