Breezy HR vs. Lever

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Breezy HR
Score 8.5 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Breezy is an applicant tracking system that aims to be fun-to-use. The vendor says its goal is to turns organization's messy hiring hacks into a pain-free process candidates love. The vendor believes hiring doesn't have to be messy. According to the vendor, Breezy customers can say, "Sayonara!" to the stacks of resumes cluttering up their workspace and let Breezy help them find their next A-player. With Breezy, users can automate time-sucking hiring tasks with tools like talent search,…
$0
1 position
Lever
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
Lever is a Talent Acquisition Suite designed to help talent teams to reach their hiring goals and to connect companies with top talent. Lever provides ATS and applicant CRM capabilities, in LeverTRM. The Lever Hire and Lever Nurture features allow leaders to grow their people pipeline, build long-lasting relationships, and source the right people. Lever Analytics provides customized reports with data visualization, see offers completed and interview feedback, and it informs strategic decisions…N/A
Pricing
Breezy HRLever
Editions & Modules
Bootstrap
$0
1 position
Startup
$143
per month annual
Business
$399
per month annual
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Breezy HRLever
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsCustom plans available for Pro features. All plans include unlimited users, unlimited candidates, and customer support.
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Community Pulse
Breezy HRLever
Considered Both Products
Breezy HR
Chose Breezy HR
Out of all of the applicant tracking systems I have used, Breezy HR is the most basic that I have experienced. The capabilities within other ATS platforms far outperform what you can get from Breezy HR.
Chose Breezy HR
I did not choose Breezy and it's the most frustrating ATS I've used in my 20+ year career. It would be different if they were willing to work on making their software better, but they become very defensive when you tell them there's something wrong with it. I would rather have …
Chose Breezy HR
The decider for us was that we were able to use the tool and try it out for free. Having the team look at it and get a hands-on feel for it really made the decision easy for us. It also had more features in it than the other products we looked at. It felt like a more complete …
Chose Breezy HR
I liked that Breezy HR had an option to try it out before we committed. I also preferred the User interface of Breezy HR to other options we looked into. The pricing was very attractive as well. Plus it included more features than most competitors we demo-ed did.
Lever
Chose Lever
We were using a free version of Breezy before. It was clunky and difficult to use. The time spent trying to navigate the product could be better spent on candidates. I used it for a few weeks while waiting for Lever to get spun up, and the transition from one to the other was …
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Breezy HRLever
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Breezy HR
5.5
16 Ratings
36% below category average
Lever
7.5
33 Ratings
6% below category average
Job Requisition Management3.315 Ratings7.430 Ratings
Company Website Posting7.116 Ratings8.330 Ratings
Publish to Social Media8.011 Ratings6.620 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting5.215 Ratings7.222 Ratings
Customized Application Form4.216 Ratings7.828 Ratings
Resume Management7.116 Ratings8.231 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention5.111 Ratings7.929 Ratings
Candidate Search8.015 Ratings7.132 Ratings
Applicant Tracking7.116 Ratings7.731 Ratings
Collaboration4.316 Ratings6.531 Ratings
Task Creation and Delegation2.314 Ratings7.121 Ratings
Email Templates6.116 Ratings8.427 Ratings
User Permissions5.114 Ratings7.230 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts7.015 Ratings7.731 Ratings
Reporting2.315 Ratings7.629 Ratings
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Breezy HRLever
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Score 9.3 out of 10
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Score 9.3 out of 10
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Paypro Workforce Management
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Paypro Workforce Management
Paypro Workforce Management
Score 9.6 out of 10
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Vibe HCM
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User Ratings
Breezy HRLever
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(18 ratings)
7.1
(34 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
1.0
(2 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
1.4
(2 ratings)
1.1
(5 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Breezy HRLever
Likelihood to Recommend
Breezy HR
Working with many employees at the same time would be the perfect scenario to let us test all the potential that the Breezy HR platform has to offer, since its organizational capacity is large enough to be able to organize and coordinate the attendance and absence information of many workers without losing track of the job. Reviewing documents where data is needed about each employee's behavior, including their daily attendance hours, tracking of all the absences they have taken since starting at the company, and comments about their potential, which would be excellent for reporting during promotional seasons. The management of many employee lists through database services, which thanks to the platform's adaptation to cover external service software operations such as Microsoft Excel, means that it is possible to import employee databases when moving information from a storage platform.
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employ Inc (Jobvite, JazzHR & NXTThing)
I think Lever is great for any sized company, but especially strong for smaller, growing teams. It's a very simple system, but clean, sleek, and very useful in any scenario. They have great support whenever you need it so those with smaller HR or People teams could easily benefit from their help. Can't think of too many scenarios where Lever wouldn't be well-suited, but maybe once you grow to International growth and hiring, it may be better to have a more Enterprise style business, set up for larger scaling.
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Pros
Breezy HR
  • Organization. It provided an incredible way to streamline applicants and their place in the process. With a strong search capability, you can find anyone no matter where they are in the process. And you can see if they've applied elsewhere in your company.
  • User friendliness. Not everyone understands technology. Even more so when web programs are involved. I am well versed in programs like these, and did a lot of vetting before making our purchase, so training came easy. It also - to our happiness - came easily to people who've never seen these programs. Breezy was there to help with the issues we had understanding; however, we didn't need them much because the interface was just that easy.
  • Options. They have third party integrations, and are willing to open to more. They want to make their program useful in more than one way. Breezy crew worked with us to link to our HRIS system. They also have a great many integrations that are relevant to any small business (we are not small, but this would be a great choice for a small company just starting out and seeking to understand what they need).
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employ Inc (Jobvite, JazzHR & NXTThing)
  • Great integration: Keeps a list of Outlook email communication along with LinkedIn and other data sources
  • Is fairly lively, not too much lag between screens even though it is looking through a lot of data.
  • Has excellent reporting on how well each email message is working.
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Cons
Breezy HR
  • Their calendar functionality is pretty clunky. For example, I am able to use the platform to easily propose times to multiple candidates, but it doesn't mark the option as unavailable once the candidate has booked the time. This has led me to be double-booked on multiple occasions. (We now just use a Calendly link).
  • You're able to create a careers web page that automatically lists open jobs through Breezy, which is nice, but the customization is incredibly limited.
  • While you can manage your whole hiring funnel from Breezy, it lacks the automation and other functions of some of the high dollar platforms.
  • Breezy doesn't offer any templates or suggestions with how to build your funnel, so I can imagine that many customers miss out on functionality that could help streamline their workflow. I think they could really benefit from some 'getting started' suggestions and guides.
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employ Inc (Jobvite, JazzHR & NXTThing)
  • [In my experience,] terrible customer support - pay more to get less...
  • Integrations are spotty and can break without reason
  • Lever has so much potential, but their Roadmap is lacking in ways that will really help customers succeed
  • Focuses on the number of candidates and not the company's need to build talent in a cost effective, data driven and collaborative way
  • Overpromised and underdelivered in [the] capability of the tool. [I believe that you should] not trust your sales team.
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Likelihood to Renew
Breezy HR
It's no fuss and does what we need at a very reasonable price, so I can't imagine why I'd switch.
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employ Inc (Jobvite, JazzHR & NXTThing)
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Usability
Breezy HR
It's very difficult to navigate. Most systems have a job management side and a candidate management side. Breezy only has a candidate management side. It never pulls our jobs to Indeed. The user interface is so challenging to navigate. It will remove vital parts of the screen if you expand a menu. It freezes constantly. It's a great idea, but it has so many software bugs. There is something wrong with this platform and nobody wants to find the bugs.
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employ Inc (Jobvite, JazzHR & NXTThing)
It isn't difficult to use for the applicant processing, but [I feel] if you want to pull reports or use their tools, good luck!
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Support Rating
Breezy HR
The customer support team is always very responsive, and they are genuinely interested in helping you solve your issue. If the issue is something they cannot solve or guide you through, they always send it to their tech team to fix from the back end. They are also very receptive when you send along ideas or suggestions.
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employ Inc (Jobvite, JazzHR & NXTThing)
What support? - Add a ticket and get links to [I believe] their unhelpful user guide. Add a charge if you want better support - afterward just got those links faster...
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Implementation Rating
Breezy HR
It was really easy to get up and running, and the few questions I did have were answered nearly immediately via the in-app chat.
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employ Inc (Jobvite, JazzHR & NXTThing)
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Alternatives Considered
Breezy HR
I liked that Breezy HR had an option to try it out before we committed. I also preferred the User interface of Breezy HR to other options we looked into. The pricing was very attractive as well. Plus it included more features than most competitors we demo-ed did
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employ Inc (Jobvite, JazzHR & NXTThing)
Lever is comparable to Greenhouse in its basic recruiting functions. I have found it to be WAY better than Bullhorn (clunky and overly-complicated with a very dated and non-intuitive interface) and Jazz HR (slick and pretty, but limited in its functions). The best ATS I've used is the proprietary tool at Meta, but alas, that tool is for internal use only
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Return on Investment
Breezy HR
  • Breezy HR has cut our recruitment work load by about 30%. Breezy HR automates a lot of the process and cuts out a ton of manual work. This has allowed our recruiters to focus on the more important parts of the process thus resulting in higher quality hires.
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employ Inc (Jobvite, JazzHR & NXTThing)
  • Lever provides an enormous ROI by getting us in front of the right candidates that are going to make us more money and more successful as an org.
  • I think that both the quality and quantity of new hires has gone up ever since we started using lever and involving the entire org in the process.
  • It also saves us a lot of time because we don't need to send referrals via email, while saving/attaching resumes and such.
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ScreenShots

Breezy HR Screenshots

Screenshot of Video InterviewingScreenshot of Breezy for iPhoneScreenshot of Recruiting PipelineScreenshot of Video InterviewsScreenshot of Reporting and AnalyticsScreenshot of Mobile app

Lever Screenshots

Screenshot of Intelligently resurface high-value past candidates who fit open roles.Screenshot of Identify the top origin and sources of candidates in all stages, the Offer stage, and the Hired stage.Screenshot of Seamlessly schedule interviews with candidates.