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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Hire by Google (discontinued)

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AHire, by Google, was a recruiting app for G suite customers. The product includes functionality for applicant tracking, candidate relationship management, and candidate sourcing. Google sunsetted the product in late 2020.N/A

    Workable

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AWorkable is a recruiting software with HR integrations and AI-powered candidate sourcing. It has SEO-optimized job descriptions and one-click advertising across popular job boards. Workable also features communication tracking, real-time syncing, reporting, and mobile accessibility for collaboration.

    $359

    per month

    Pricing
    Hire by Google (discontinued)Workable
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Standard
    $360
    per month (starting with 1-20 employees)
    Premier
    $599
    per month (billed annually) (starting with 1-20 employees)
    Enterprise
    $799
    per month (billed annually)
    Premier
    $8148
    per year (starting with 1-20 employees)
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Hire by Google (discontinued)Workable
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—20% discount for annual pricing on Standard plan. Buyers can also select add-ons for an additional fee.
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    Community Pulse
    Hire by Google (discontinued)Workable
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Workable
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    Features
    Hire by Google (discontinued)Workable
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Hire by Google (discontinued) and Workable
    Feature
    Hire by Google (discontinued)
    8.1
    1 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Workable
    8.3
    36 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Job Requisition Management9.01 Ratings8.030 Ratings
    Company Website Posting9.01 Ratings9.032 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting1.01 Ratings9.034 Ratings
    Customized Application Form9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resume Management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate Search10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking10.01 Ratings9.034 Ratings
    Collaboration7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email Templates7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts9.01 Ratings8.033 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media00 Ratings10.029 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings7.031 Ratings
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    Score10 out of 10
    Zoho People
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    JobDiva
    Score8 out of 10
    PeopleStrong
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Hire by Google (discontinued)Workable
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (37 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Hire by Google (discontinued)Workable
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Google Hire is very good at doing the basics well. I believe for most internal HR departments at small companies, this is all you need. It also works well for small to medium-sized staffing companies that just want something reliable and easy to use. What Google Hire doesn't do very well is be flexible. They don't have custom options, they don't have a ton of settings, and their development cycle is slow. As a result, it's pretty much what you see is what you get.
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    Workable
    Workable is great at creating job posts and posting them to multiple job boards with a single click and also running paid campaigns on social media platforms to reach passive candidates as well. Workable has a friendly UI and has a very gentle learning curve. It is more appropriate for larger organizations where you need to hire thousands of people a year and need to always have a pipeline of great talent.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Google does search well so when I search through our database for candidates, I'm confident that I'm pulling up all the right people from what we have.
    • They have a modern and nice user interface - this is one of the biggest reasons to use it over other systems, as most ATS' are pretty ancient looking and not very pleasant to use.
    • Their support is very good at answering and addressing questions.
    • Their pricing is incredible. I'm sure at some point it will change, but for small companies paying 100+ per user for other ATS' - it's incredible to pay 100/month for the whole company.
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    Workable
    • The platform allows us to implement a scorecard service through which it is possible to keep track of the quality of nutrition that each prospective employee could bring to the company, so that the decision to hire any of them is as profitable as possible.
    • Communication with candidates is very easy to track, so that it is possible to make sure that the results proposed by each employee in the recruitment area are totally adequate. This is useful to filter possible failures that may occur on the part of the recruitment team.
    • The platform works with recruitment funnels, whose structure allows us to purify the information of real utility for the company by the employees, and where we can even add databases with the information of all prospective employees that are kept in the recruitment process.
    • Using Workable in conjunction with the information provided by their online technical assistants results in a huge improvement in our labor operation, as they know the best strategies to leverage our hiring management. Workable's technical support is active most of the day.
    • Using Workable was no problem for our employees in the human talent development area, mostly because they, despite not having any experience with Workable, were able to adapt to the platform with incredible speed, thanks to the ease of use of Workable and the number of tools it has right out of the box.
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Despite many many months of requests, Google still hasn't implemented ANY custom fields. This makes it tough for an external recruiting firm to track what they want (most importantly: desired salary).
    • The job board integration is not great for external recruiters, mostly at the fault of Indeed. Indeed flagged us as a recruiting firm and so none of our jobs actually go live. While I know this is an Indeed problem (we had the same problem when using Bullhorn), Breezy ATS never has that problem for us so I don't know what they're doing differently.
    • Their development cycles are quite frankly very slow. I've requested some features, and while support is great about telling me it's coming or in the pipeline, I honestly don't really see a difference in the product since we started using it. It's still great to use, and we still love the software, but there haven't been too many visible improvements that make any difference to our work.
    • Being Google, it can sometimes be frustrating that one arm doesn't talk to the other. For example, they announced a Gmail for Works App/Extension integration, but for some reason when they launched it, admins of a domain couldn't install it. Google Hire pointed to the Google for Works team, and it took literally months to fix. Not the end of the world, but just very silly considering they're the same company.
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    Workable
    • The ability to schedule interviews via Workable was great, but it was unable to pull other items from your calendar, so it was easy to end up double booked for appointments if you weren't careful.
    • The reporting leaves a bit to be desired, there is not a lot of customization for what I really needed reports on.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Workable
    It's become a part of the fabric of our hiring process and we are growing like crazy! Once we have a working platform in place the cost of the change management typically far out weighs the benefits derived from the change! It's especially hard to change a process with employees who are not key stake holders, they are alway hesitant to invest time in a new product they are only going to use once in a while. With that said if something else came along with benefits far and above workable that we would gain a clear lift in productivity and capabilities we would make the change, we've done it with other parts of our tech stack
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Workable
    One thing, it just works as advertised. AI integration makes the work more easier, and we will be able to process the applications more faster with the help of AI.
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Workable
    I have never had to rely on Workable's support team so I cannot attest to this. I have never had to rely on Workable's support team so I cannot attest to this. I have never had to rely on Workable's support team so I cannot attest to this.I have never had to rely on Workable's support team so I cannot attest to this. I have never had to rely on Workable's support team so I cannot attest to this.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    I picked Google Hire after spending about 3 months on Bullhorn. I found Bullhorn to be terrible. It's WAY more customizable and theoretically powerful, but it's also a pain to set up and maintain. Even just getting your job page set up on your own site required tech support. Getting it eventually to what you want could be a great benefit, but Google Hire does great right out of the box and is a lot cheaper. Breezy HR is a great system. It's a bit more expensive than Google Hire for multiple job postings, but their system is equally easy to use and straight forward. However, we are all in on Google Products, so it was just a no brainer to go with Hire for a better price and most likely a better search function.
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    Workable
    Workable was an excellent tool for our start-up. It was cost effective but very user-friendly. It wasn't a difficult sell to ensure our hiring managers would utilize the tool, and I particularly liked the inbox feature to stay organized. I rated Workable very highly, though as our company grew exponentially, we did go in a different direction.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Google Hire makes, unfortunately, a very little impact on our ROI, but I think in the ATS world that's a good thing. It simply acts as a record that we can put everything in and easily reference, and the fact that it works overall makes it a positive software product in the long run.
    • While the search works great, I don't know that I've ever specifically found a candidate and placed them due to it. That could be a result of our job reqs though.
    • The biggest most obvious impact is really just the price. We needed a tool that does what Google Hire does, reliably. Most other companies charge at least 150 or so for 2 people, whereas Google Hire is 100/month for many users. It gives us flexibility for the future and helps minimize what could be a big expense. That definitely helps our bottom line.
    Incentivized
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    Workable
    • Workable has a had positive ROI on our workflow management, as the basic pay-as-you-go feature for a single role is incredibly affordable ($50/month) for a 2-3 month mid-to-senior level candidate search.
    • The ease of use has helped us move candidates faster as well - our average time to close a role decreased by 22% after our first 6 months of using Workable.
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