Workable is the best for startups: good price, organized, lets you post and discover & recruit
August 28, 2018
Workable is the best for startups: good price, organized, lets you post and discover & recruit
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Workable
We used Workable to both find and usher candidates through our hiring pipeline. We are a small (under 10 people) startup, looking for specific engineers. Previously we had been using spreadsheets, which was getting messy and tedious. I read reviews of about 10 different ATSs, and Workable seemed like the best bang for our buck. My favorite part about Workable is the initial process: other Applicant Tracking Systems had you fill out a form, block time out of your schedule, do a demo with a salesperson...the whole process would take days. I wanted an ATS at the speed of startups: now. I went onto Workable's website and they simply handed me some keys to a demo, and I showed myself in. Within 5 minutes I could have taught someone how to use it. Within 15 minutes I purchased it. It was so intuitive. The fact that they don't insist you talk to a salesperson, and let the product speak for itself, is really what stands out for me. This is why I would recommend Workable, above all things.
- Chrome extension to find candidate info (although full use of this feature nearly doubles the price of the monthly subscription, fair warning)
- Organizing candidates through a pipeline, so you know where each person stands
- Letting co-workers share thoughts in a private chat about the candidate
- Super easy to learn the interface-- easiest of probably any ATS I've seen.
- Lets you post on major job boards for free, using one form (included with the monthly fee), and double checks your work to make sure it's posted correctly
- Lets you easily sift through candidates from job boards
- Chrome extension (to find candidate info) works only about 80% of the time
- Chrome extension nearly doubles the cost, they don't tell you that ahead of time
- They are a new company, and it shows: features are changing a lot, but, their customer service is also extremely responsive and actually hears your feedback
- Cut our candidate search and hire time in half
- Allowed us to organize our candidates better
I had a demo call with Lever: it was about 3x more expensive if I recall, but had the same features as Workable. It also seemed better for huge companies. We're a startup. However, I can't imagine wanting to leave Workable even if we grew to 100+ people.
Every other ATS I looked at seemed either overpriced, or stuck in the dark ages. I looked at about 15 others.
Every other ATS I looked at seemed either overpriced, or stuck in the dark ages. I looked at about 15 others.