Item: Greenhouse
Rating: 8
Author: Swati Rana

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Greenhouse to filter candidates for interview process, these candidates are sourced from various recruiting agencies and certain candidates are referred by internal employees.Greenhouse helps us in sourcing and identifying the right candidates and then smoothening and better structuring the whole interview process.

Pros and Cons

Greenhouse is amazing for recruitment and the links can directly be posted from here to recruiting websites.
GREENHOUSE helps in taking interview notes while interviewing which help in subsequent interview stages by well documenting the negatives and positives of each candidate.
Background checks and offer letter approval is also something which greenhouse does very smoothly with readily available templates.
While decision making, it helps us give the exact reason for rejection and if selected we can directly choose the source from options so that the source can be incentivised accordingly.

While giving referral, we can not always track the status of application of the referred candidate as it keeps throwing errors.
The UI is complicated and we can view only a small number of candidates in one go, the need to scroll frequently can be annoying.
Creating offer letters is easy but reiterating changes after negotiations with the candidates is time consuming, Greenhouse sometimes has very slow load times.

Return on Investment

We receive a wider pool of candidates which is always better as we can find the perfect candidates who matched most of the job requirements
Greenhouse has helped us in decreasing all sorts of complexities that we used to face while hiring.
Now there is a better coherence between interviewers at each stages, because of interview notes.

Usability

Greenhouse perfectly does the job of fetching candidate's resumed and smooth hiring and onboarding process. I gave a 9 because there is a scope of improvement in the User Interface which can increase its usability and feature adoption.

Alternatives Considered

BambooHR

The feature discoverability and scope of use case of certain features was better for Greenhouse and also the reviews from Employees with their past experiences weighted against BambooHR but in favour of Greenhouse.

Key Insights

Do you think Greenhouse delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Greenhouse's feature set?

Yes

Did Greenhouse live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Greenhouse go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Greenhouse again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Mixpanel, AppsFlyer, Firebase, Rocketium Creative Automation, Mesh, Canva, MoEngage, Miro, Meta for Business (formerly Facebook for Business), Google Ads (formerly AdWords), Shutterstock

Likelihood to Recommend

Greenhouse helps in finding right candidates for the job vacancies that we have in our organisation, the sourcing is diverse and also internal links from Greenhouse can be posted by employees on various social media channels there Greenhouse helps by creating an abundant pool of candidates to choose from.

Apart from some minor bug fixes like improvement in load times and right tracking, I do not think there are any major issues with the platform.

Great software for Candidate Hiring and Onboarding

Overall Satisfaction with Greenhouse