Greenhouse: truly transparent hiring software
June 12, 2019
Greenhouse: truly transparent hiring software
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Greenhouse
Our company uses Greenhouse for the hiring process: putting up job listings, receiving and storing candidate application materials, and gathering employee feedback after interviews. Because many of our employees work cross-departmentally, and because overall culture fit is such a priority here, many people across the organization conduct interviews (not just HR and managers) and therefore have access to Greenhouse.
- Greenhouse job listings look neat and are very user-friendly. As an applicant, I always appreciated that Greenhouse job listings looked uniform, contained all the information I needed, and made applications simple. This is helpful on the other side of the hiring process too.
- I really like the dashboard. It's clean and makes it super easy to make referrals, see upcoming interviews, and view/share jobs.
- The interview scorecards are great. Thorough without taking too much time to fill out, and strikes the right balance of structure (yes/no questions, number ratings, etc.) and open-endedness (short answers).
- It would be great if I could save/access interview questions within Greenhouse. (Perhaps this is possible and just not a feature available to me.) Currently, I keep questions in a Google Doc and have to coordinate with other interviewers to ensure that we ask the right spread of questions.
- Although I am not an admin user and don't play a role in maintaining this software, I've heard from our HR department that it's somewhat pricy and not an especially affordable tool.
- A nice-to-have: the ability to log in and check the status of your application as a candidate. The silence/darkness on the other side can be discouraging and stressful.
- Helps reduce inconsistency and bias across interviews. Greenhouse provides some organization and allows all interviewers to provide structured feedback, which makes it easier to compare candidates after interviews.
- Improves the quality of post-interview feedback. The interviewer "scorecards" are a really helpful guide when providing feedback, asking specific questions that I wouldn't have thought to answer if I was simply writing a paragraph of feedback. It's structured and easy to fill out, but still includes places to write short answers freely.
- Streamlines the hiring process. It's easy for my manager to log in to Greenhouse each morning, look through candidates, and quickly reject or move applicants to the next round. The automated calendar invites and scorecards help other non-managerial employees stay on top of upcoming interviews.