Lever vs. SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Lever
Score 9.4 out of 10
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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
SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors
Score 9.3 out of 10
N/A
SmartRecruiters’ Talent Acquisition Suite is a cloud-based recruitment marketing and collaborative hiring platform. It was acquired by SAP and its functionality will be integrated into SAP SuccessFactors while remaining standalone for existing customers.N/A
Pricing
LeverSmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
LeverSmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThe software subscription is determined by the number of a company's full time employees. There is a one time cost to set up software, including customizations, integrations, data migration and training.
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Community Pulse
LeverSmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors
Considered Both Products
Lever

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SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors
Chose SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors
I didn't select SmartRecruiters. Lever has better search, communication, and candidate management interfaces. Sonic has great customability. Jobscore workflow is intuitive and very easy to use. Jobvite's candidate experience is top notch. Taleo's metrics and reporting are very …
Chose SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors
Price, configurability, automation capability. At the top with Teamtailor and Workable IMO.
Chose SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors
We were down to SR and Lever. SR lacked a couple of features Lever had (that they've since rolled out) but SR provided a smooth, transparent and collaborative sales process that ultimately tipped the scales in their favor.
Features
LeverSmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Lever
9.4
34 Ratings
17% above category average
SmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors
9.1
129 Ratings
14% above category average
Job Requisition Management9.531 Ratings10.0111 Ratings
Company Website Posting9.531 Ratings9.0116 Ratings
Publish to Social Media9.521 Ratings8.0114 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting9.523 Ratings8.9117 Ratings
Customized Application Form9.529 Ratings7.1106 Ratings
Resume Management9.532 Ratings7.9121 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention9.530 Ratings9.9116 Ratings
Candidate Search9.533 Ratings9.9124 Ratings
Applicant Tracking9.532 Ratings10.0128 Ratings
Collaboration9.532 Ratings9.9119 Ratings
Task Creation and Delegation9.522 Ratings9.999 Ratings
Email Templates8.728 Ratings9.0116 Ratings
User Permissions8.731 Ratings9.0111 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts9.532 Ratings9.0121 Ratings
Reporting9.530 Ratings9.5107 Ratings
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User Ratings
LeverSmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(35 ratings)
7.9
(129 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(15 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(2 ratings)
9.1
(12 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
1.1
(5 ratings)
9.0
(10 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.1
(12 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
LeverSmartRecruiters, now part of SAP SuccessFactors
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Very good for large complex organisations that need a highly customisable solution to fit a wide variety of use cases. It is very simple to use for hiring managers and recruiters, with minimal training required for the team to implement. A big list of integration parts that fit well into existing tech stacks.
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Pros
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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  • Job Referrals - can easily refer others to a job posting and view the status
  • Job Postings - can easily search for job openings and read job description and criteria
  • Application online - Can easily apply for the job directly and see who the hiring manager and hiring recruiter is
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Cons
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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  • Settings page can be difficult to navigate & find what you're looking for
  • Job approval chains would be better with additional qualifying fields so that we can segregate different areas of the business better
  • The ability to edit an existing offer template in-system would improve the experience, rather than having to edit offline and upload a whole new version.
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Likelihood to Renew
Employ Inc.
No answers on this topic
Discontinued Products
I thoroughly enjoy using SmartRecruiters and have shared this feedback with those responsible, however I am not a decision maker in the process. I understand that at the moment there are lots of factors affecting the economy and business outcomes, so I cannot comment with certainty on the renewal of SmartRecruiters at this time, not involved in the confirmation of renewal.
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Usability
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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I would give this rating as overall it a great combo of all your problems. With just one click you can get away with all your problems such as recruitment, candidate update, Interview scheduling, updating candidates, reports of a job perspective, and recruiters perspective. Usability is worth of SmartRecruiters. The dashboard is also very attractive and once you open you will love working on this platform again and again. I would say it is the best platform to use once for smooth work in your organization.
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Reliability and Availability
Employ Inc.
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Discontinued Products
Rarely is there an issue and if the product is down, it typically is restored quickly.
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Performance
Employ Inc.
No answers on this topic
Discontinued Products
I have no complaints about performance. The system works virtually flawless.
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Support Rating
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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Discontinued Products
Response is normally very fast. There are times, however, when the response is not useful. It is difficult to work with the reporting and the offer letter templates, and the front line support agents usually are not very knowledgeable. Second, if there are any issues with integrations, the regular support agents will not be able to help you. You'll have to create that ticket and ask them to escalate it to an integration specialist.
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In-Person Training
Employ Inc.
No answers on this topic
Discontinued Products
Quick and easy to learn.
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Implementation Rating
Employ Inc.
No answers on this topic
Discontinued Products
It really was a painless and easy process to switch to SmartRecruiters.
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Alternatives Considered
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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Discontinued Products
I've really enjoyed using SmartRecruiters, but these other ATSs that we've checked out offer better reporting features and price points. Over time, we may be transitioning off of SmartRecruiters to one of these ATSs because the price is a set price where SmartRecruiters has employee-based pricing model. Also, these other software products offer better reporting features that would eliminate some of our manual tracking process that we're currently doing.
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Scalability
Employ Inc.
No answers on this topic
Discontinued Products
No explanation really, just a great product.
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Return on Investment
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.
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  • In terms of ROI, SR helped our business greatly in returning precious time to my productivity in business management, as well as my team's, so that we could get back to the main work we were hired for. The SR process did most of the heavy lifting.
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ScreenShots

Lever Screenshots

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