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    Greenhouse

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AGreenhouse is an ATS for companies of all sizes. Greenhouse's software supports every stage of the hiring process, from sourcing to onboarding, with the goal of empowering companies to hire top talent quickly, consistently and fairly as their business grows.N/A

    HiringThing

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ACloud-based applicant tracking system

    $39

    per month

    Lever

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/ALever 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
    GreenhouseHiringThingLever
    Editions & Modules
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    Subscription
    $27.00
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    GreenhouseHiringThingLever
    Free Trial
    NoYesNo
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup feeOptional
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    GreenhouseHiringThingLever
    Considered Multiple Products
    Greenhouse Software Inc.
    Chose Greenhouse
    Greenhouse is the standard, it is the most expensive but it's worth it. If you wanted to spend less, I'd suggest Lever but that will also mean cutting on some neat features that could improve your recruiting process.
    Incentivized
    Chose Greenhouse
    Many startups will end up using Lever or Greenhouse as an ATS system and they are very comparable. I love Lever as well but Greenhouse just has more functionalities and it higher capacities especially working with a bigger company from 500-1000 high growth scale. Lever is a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Greenhouse
    I believe that Lever is slightly better than Greenhouse as it's more convenient and you can communicate with candidates through it. However, I do think Greenhouse is really useful and has almost all the features you may need to track candidates and job postings. My company uses …
    Incentivized
    Chose Greenhouse
    The design of Greenhouse is straightforward and organized. We evaluated other applicant tracking systems recently and found them to still stand out as one of the most user-friendly. It serves many vital functions that a couple of other applicant tracking systems lacked. The …
    Incentivized
    Chose Greenhouse
    Greenhouse is much cleaner and easier to use than Lever
    Incentivized
    Chose Greenhouse
    Lever has very similar features - and for me the UI of Greenhouse wins. Greenhouse is easier to navigate and easier for scheduling. I also think that having to build out reporting within tableau to get the depth of reporting some may need is not scalable. I like that Greenhouse …
    Incentivized
    Chose Greenhouse
    Lever works better for companies that have full recruiting teams. It isn't as user-friendly for Greenhouse. Out of all of the ATS systems I trialed, Greenhouse is by far the best ATS I have used, as well as having the most positive feedback across the company. I highly …
    Incentivized
    Chose Greenhouse
    iCIMS is VERY clunky compared to Greenhouse. I have heard good things about Lever. We demo'd with Lever and Jazz when we were selecting a new ATS and went with Greenhouse. I have heard Greenhouse is more expensive than others and some companies get priced out. When I recommend …
    Incentivized
    Chose Greenhouse
    Workable was the cheapest option but also the youngest (so less feature-rich). Lever was similarly priced and had much more intuitive workflows. The tipping point to go with Greenhouse was their handling of job requisitions. We have a large amount of detail in job approvals …
    Incentivized
    Chose Greenhouse
    Comparable with Lever, and better than iCIMS
    Incentivized
    Chose Greenhouse
    Greenhouse in comparison to others we've evaluated is that they cannot comprehend the level of importance when it comes to hiring. Especially during this time where candidates have so many options, the quicker [it is] to move someone throughout the process by just a couple of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Greenhouse
    When we were evaluating recruiting systems, we looked at Greenhouse, Lever and Jobvite. Must-haves for us were usability, robust search features, global support and reporting. Greenhouse met all of those requirements by a wide margin. Jobvite seemed antiquated, not …
    Incentivized
    Chose Greenhouse
    Greenhouse was far better for us
    Incentivized
    Chose Greenhouse
    Greenhouse has mastered the ATS tool and continuously improves features based on soliciting feedback from their customers. They do a great job at listening and adjusting based on the growing needs of their customers in the talent management space.
    Incentivized
    Chose Greenhouse
    Greenhouse offers more features is more customizable then the other tools mentioned above!
    Incentivized
    Chose Greenhouse
    I prefer using Greenhouse as it's more user friendly and the reporting feature is awesome.
    Incentivized
    Chose Greenhouse
    We evaluated another tool but ultimately decided on Greenhouse due to scalability, UI, and the power of the tool.
    Incentivized
    Chose Greenhouse
    Greenhouse is the Tesla of ATS. It is the most innovative and effective, but it is still competitively priced. It is not clunky and hard to use like an Icims, and it has way more features and is easier to scale with your business than ever.
    Incentivized
    Chose Greenhouse
    I think Greenhouse is much more user-friendly. I received little training on the system and am still able to comfortably navigate it.
    Incentivized
    Chose Greenhouse
    I evaluated Leve, JobDiva, SmartRecruiters, and Jobvite 3-4 times in the past few years and I have to say that Greenhouse was at a nice price point and gave us the usability and functionality that we require here at Beeswax. I'm a big fan and their customer service is amazing. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Greenhouse
    It's not the worst but it's not the best. It has really great features but not the best user support.
    Incentivized
    Chose Greenhouse
    Greenhouse is cheaper, functionally better, and easier to use regardless of how it looks.
    Customer Support for Greenhouse is a million times better.
    Free posts to Glassdoor Jobs page (huge money saver).
    Incentivized
    HiringThing
    No answer on this topic
    Employ Inc.
    Chose Lever
    Lever doesn't have quite as many features as Greenhouse, and Greenhouse would probably be a better choice for a large enterprise organization, but for small enterprises and below, Lever will work great, and it's quite a bit less expensive.
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    I think Lever stacks up fairly well and is right above the midpoint. iCIMS and Greenhouse provide a larger, more Enterprise style product for huge scale, so I'd put the two of them above Lever at this time, but we chose Lever over Greenhouse for a reason. I just don't know if …
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    I will be reaching out to Greenhouse to compare, but I am not familiar with the product just that it has a good reputation. UKG (Ulitpro) was worse than Lever when I used it last.
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    I strongly prefer Greenhouse, but lever will get the job done. Equal cost I go with Greenhouse. If Lever is much cheaper they aren't wildly differentiated
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    From an interviewer perspective, both are similar in that they provide easy feedback inputs and organization. Overall I liked Greenhouse better in my previous role because it seemed to have more customization around quantitative evaluation. You could break down more skills with …
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    Lever was certainly more expensive than a beta test for GoogleHire, and about on par with Greenhouse. We ultimately went with Lever over Greenhouse due to its sleek, intuitive UI design. And we chose Lever over GoogleHire beta program because the latter didn't seem to provide …
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    It’s great.
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    Lever is more visually intuitive. It is a faster platform since it requires less clicking around to accomplish tasks.
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    Lever is a great option for nonprofit organizations, campaigns, and the like. It is an easy enough system for both the operations team and prospective job candidates to use, facilitate, and navigate with little to no training. It is also a huge time saver when trying to fill …
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    It's not worth the trouble.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
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    92%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
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    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    23 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    54 Answers
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    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
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    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    GreenhouseHiringThingLever
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Greenhouse and HiringThing and Lever
    Feature
    Greenhouse
    8.7
    139 Ratings
    9% above category average
    HiringThing
    8.8
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Lever
    9.7
    34 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Job Requisition Management9.6123 Ratings10.01 Ratings9.831 Ratings
    Company Website Posting9.6123 Ratings10.01 Ratings9.831 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media7.3109 Ratings00 Ratings9.821 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting7.4115 Ratings00 Ratings9.823 Ratings
    Customized Application Form7.5116 Ratings00 Ratings9.829 Ratings
    Resume Management9.8129 Ratings10.01 Ratings9.832 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention8.0110 Ratings00 Ratings9.830 Ratings
    Candidate Search8.0112 Ratings10.01 Ratings9.833 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking9.4133 Ratings10.01 Ratings9.832 Ratings
    Collaboration9.0126 Ratings5.01 Ratings9.832 Ratings
    Task Creation and Delegation9.1104 Ratings00 Ratings9.822 Ratings
    Email Templates9.5112 Ratings5.01 Ratings8.928 Ratings
    User Permissions9.0115 Ratings10.01 Ratings8.931 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts9.5128 Ratings00 Ratings9.832 Ratings
    Reporting7.5111 Ratings00 Ratings9.830 Ratings
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    Crelate
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    Score9.1 out of 10
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    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    CareerSiteBuilder
    Score10 out of 10
    CareerSiteBuilder
    Score10 out of 10
    CareerSiteBuilder
    Score10 out of 10
    Enterprises
    JobDiva
    Score8 out of 10
    JobDiva
    Score8 out of 10
    JobDiva
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    GreenhouseHiringThingLever
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (142 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.8
    (35 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    Usability
    9.1
    (60 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (16 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.1
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.1
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    GreenhouseHiringThingLever
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Greenhouse Software Inc.
    Well suited for Big organizations where recruitment is a daily task. Understanding of Greenhouse workings is simple and it is not difficult to train people who use it for first time. Greenhouse is less appropriate if you are looking for sharing offer letters or doing employee onboarding. Did not had a great experience in doing that
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    HiringThing
    Hiring Thing is great for new organizations just starting out with smaller talent teams. It is very simple to use, add users, walkthrough processes, communicate with candidates, and walk through the hiring process. It does not work as well when an organization grows, needs lots of open requisitions, and has a decentralized hiring process.
    Incentivized
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    Employ Inc.
    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
    Greenhouse Software Inc.
    • Customization of interview plans, questions, interviewer roles for multiple positions
    • Manages efficient and timely candidate, hiring manager, and interviewer communication
    • Integrates with other tools needed in the hiring process such as sourcing tools and onboarding systems
    • Provides analytics and reporting to allow for data insights and process improvements
    • Provides an Onboarding feature that makes the hiring cycle seamless from first interview to hire date
    Incentivized
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    HiringThing
    • System navigation
    • Posting to website and job boards
    • Reviewing applicants quickly
    Incentivized
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    Employ Inc.
    • 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
    Greenhouse Software Inc.
    • Greenhouse Security is simple, but not that granular. For example, everytime new recruiter joins, we have to give them access manually one by one. There is no one click or an easy way to auto assign security unlike other systems that we use such as Workday.
    • Greenhouse reporting is very lacking. Even though we are on the highest tier, we cannot extract data through this delivered feature. For example, scorecard custom questions. We have to do this through SQL.
    • Greenhouse Audit Log is also lacking. It is not useful at all. We cannot even see what job info changed and who changed it even though we are on the highest tier now.
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    HiringThing
    • The support side leaves room for improvement
    • The offer letter and onboarding documents often didn't send
    • Limited availability for posting
    Incentivized
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    Employ Inc.
    • [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
    Greenhouse Software Inc.
    we are gaining more by in from our hiring managers and candidates seem to like the ease of getting us interview times etc
    Incentivized
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    HiringThing
    No answers on this topic
    Employ Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Greenhouse Software Inc.
    Greenhouse's user-friendly interface, efficient workflows, and integration capabilities with other HR tools make it a powerful tool for our company, helping us streamline our hiring and onboarding processes. With its customizable workflow and intuitive design, Greenhouse allows us to create a hiring process that suits their specific needs and requirements, without the need for extensive coding or technical expertise. Moreover, Greenhouse's integration capabilities with other HR tools enable us to centralise our hiring and onboarding data, making it easier to access and analyse applicant information, and reducing the risk of data loss or errors.
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    HiringThing
    No answers on this topic
    Employ Inc.
    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
    Greenhouse Software Inc.
    I have never needed to call Greenhouse for support. I am not the primary account holder, nor do I use Greenhouse enough to merit calling support. I delegate that responsibility to the Recruiting team. They have never mentioned any experience with Greenhouse technical support, either bad or good. I would assume that they would tell me if the support was poor.
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    HiringThing
    No answers on this topic
    Employ Inc.
    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
    Greenhouse Software Inc.
    I think we could have used more delivered functionality and less customized which now results in more maintenance
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    HiringThing
    No answers on this topic
    Employ Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Greenhouse Software Inc.
    Tools appears very light to use. It does not take forever to load. the interface is very simple but capable, unlike many ATS's. The tools is Simple yet loaded with very useful functionalities that save a lot of time and expedites the processes. For different stakeholders, the tools works accordingly.
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    HiringThing
    No answers on this topic
    Employ Inc.
    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
    Greenhouse Software Inc.
    • Streamlined the hiring process and new hire time to value
    • Increased satisfaction for hiring managers and sales account managers
    • Allowed us to gain access to a bigger and more targeted talent pool
    • Saved us time and helped us avoid things falling by the wayside by keeping things in one place and sending automated alerts
    Incentivized
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    HiringThing
    • We hired lots of people
    • Lots of staff used the system
    • It served as a bandaid
    Incentivized
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    Employ Inc.
    • 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.
    Incentivized
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    Lever Screenshots

    Screenshot of where to identify the top origin and sources of candidates in all stages, the Offer stage, and the Hired stage.