Lever

Vorteile

Its super easy to use and great for tracking candidate pipeline. Simple for new hiring managers to understand and navigate

Nachteile

Its has the least functionality of all the modern ATS, it doesn't have much places where you can customize compared to Greenhouse, Ashby, etc.

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Easy to use, integrates with LinkedIn, has permission system, respects GDPR

Nachteile

More features meaning is not as snappy as it could be (UI is getting slower)

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I love everything about Lever and my Implementation specialist, [sensitive content hidden]! He did a fantastic job getting my company all set to use our new applicant tracking system. Our Level team was patient, understanding, and very helpful. Every company needs Lever in their lives.

Nachteile

Nothing, I loved everything about Lever!

Vorteile

Lever makes the end-to-end recruitment process easy. From adding an open position through to reviewing applications, filtering candidates, communicating with candidates and ultimately making the hire.

Lever enables you to review CVs received within the software and enables a frictionless process when recruiting. It also provides a front-end product which can be used for internal and external vacancies. The layout of the job listings is clear and straightforward.

Nachteile

With a high number of candidates it can sometimes be different to sort in an efficient manner.

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Our organization has found Lever to be the perfect talent acquisition solution. Lever provides intelligent functionality and automation that simplifies its usage, allowing us to easily create, edit, and publish job postings and experiences across various social media platforms, notably LinkedIn. Lever's automation feature guarantees that no suitable candidate is overlooked by automatically sorting through applications. I especially appreciate that Lever allows us to manage all stages of recruitment, share feedback and ratings about candidates transparently, and automatically document all updates on the candidate's page.

Nachteile

It's not too complicated, especially since the customization capabilities are excellent. I just hope that some restrictions are removed so we can add grades/marks during the quick review process for a large list of applicants.

Vorteile

I have been using Lever for years and I wanted my new company to start using it instead of Greenhouse. The functionality is easier to use and it makes the day to day flow effortlessly with our TA team.

Nachteile

There are some features it is lacking that I hope they release very soon, it would make our lives a lot easier

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[sensitive content hidden] provided THE BEST implementation experience. Migrating over to Lever came at a time when there was not a lot of time to devote to implementation projects, but he made the work feel managable, possible, and always a team effort. The layout of the implementation was always concise and clear, with all questions always answered with confidence and context. He was also always a joy to speak to and I always looked forward to the meetings. I couldn't recommend him enough.

Nachteile

If I had to nit pick, it would be the inability to customize interview buckets for each role.

Vorteile

Easy to set up
User friendly
Integrates with good HRIS systems

Nachteile

Perhaps customer service could be better. It;s not a concern but something that they can improve a bit

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I think the ease of use is great with Lever, able to have hiring manager review / move candidates along while using the reporting aspect of it to showcase your work.Also the integration part is great as it can integrate with various platform like Hired.com, HireEZ, and of course GEM for sourcing.

Nachteile

Not much except there's too much updates or info coming from Lever. I wish they could lower their noise with updates and notification.

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Lever is easy to implement and get off the ground. The implementation only took a week or so starting with no ATS to begin with. Operates like a salesforce esq platform, sales and marketing typically find it easier to use than other teams.

Nachteile

Data and reporting has been up and down. They updated reporting recently and I've had some issues with it, hoping they rework it in the future.

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I like the functions and scheduling features of Lever. The product overall is easy to implement and use.

Nachteile

The UI and UX of the product needs to improve. The dashboards and the reporting functionality is clunky.

Vorteile

Simple.Intuitive. Extremely easy to onboard new recruiters and get them up to speed. All the basic functionality to run a quick process is there. Not expensive - for the price point I would say delivers a lot of value.

Nachteile

Not innovative. They accept feedback - but nothing gets implemented. Even simple things that should take no time. I wish they were listening to the customers who are using the product every day - we want to help and make Lever better.

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Vorteile

Simple and effective, cost is affordable for growing organizations, and the way they price it based on employee count and not on a per-seat basis.

Nachteile

Reporting can be better, LinkedIn integration is a work in progress.

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Lever was easy to implement (I had it up and running in less than 24 hours), the career page can be integrated with your current website quickly, the scorecards are fully customizable, and the ATS does a nice job at tracking candidates throughout the process.

Nachteile

At the moment, a user cannot edit the interview stages without submitting a ticket to Lever. I hope they change this in the near future.

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We have used Lever for over 2 years, rolled out in countries across and globe and trained hundreds of hiring managers to use the system for feedback and reviewing applications. We initially chose Lever for its data and analytics, which have allowed us to automate reports and KPIs for teams in all our markets. The system is user friendly, and tools like Lever Nurture and Recommendations can help recruitment teams to find and attract more talent.

Perhaps the best thing about choosing Lever is the team behind it. The system itself has rolled out many new features (requisitions, approval flows, restricting access to view sensitive information) after carefully considering feedback and suggestions, which are critical for scaling and management for large orgs. The support team is incredibly responsive to any issue and the product team is open to feedback and as transparent as possible about upcoming changes.

The customer success team really goes above and beyond to understand and work through client concerns and helps to find innovative solutions to most issues. If you choose Lever and are lucky enough to work with rep - you've struck gold. I don't think I've worked with someone more focused on client satisfaction, able to make tough discussions enjoyable, and who really advocates for his clients.

Nachteile

While Lever is growing rapidly and adopting more large global clients, there still seems to be a dominance of focus on US tech startups - for example in the Partner Integrations or in offer templates (multiple options for equity and vesting options) but complex package structures can require significant customisations, which can require additional work for enterprise clients.

The biggest hurdle to adopting Lever as a global enterprise solution has been concerns around data privacy of candidates and employees as it stores all data only on servers in the US. From a security standpoint, this is worrying, has made it harder to get buy in to roll out in other markets, and delayed several implementations. If you want to consider candidates outside the US, particularly in Europe and Emerging markets, it means significantly more time and checks with Legal, Compliance, and Security departments. There is also the fair concern that non US candidates may be discouraged from sharing their data if wary of surveillance and privacy rights - which are major concerns and considerations in other markets. Investing in data centres in locations that focus on protecting data privacy would make it easier (and safer) to roll out and use as a true enterprise tool.

Vorteile

Having the implementation plan and scheduled checkins with cust support has helped a lot in getting me to focus on the right things at the right time. Lever does a great job at striking the balance between "highly configurable" and ready to use out of the box: most of what we need is pre-configured properly (making deployment easy) and the fact that most things are configurable/customizable is great (making it easier to tweak those things where we need to deviate from "norm").

Cust support rep was great and answered many questions that went beyond Lever features/functions/configurations. I enjoyed working with him and he was very helpful -- as the VP of Engineering, "HR" isn't exactly my wheelhouse. He took into account our specific needs and suggested best practices that took into account other considerations (e.g. legal).

Nachteile

As you are aware, it would be great if EasyBook was more of a global feature. It would be great if a coworker could use the links and email templates I configured. Also I wish schedules could be modified by the people being scheduled rather than just by the owner of the link. Finally, consider treating "Tentative" or "Maybe" as Accepted/Busy on calendars (or making that more configurable); there have been a couple of race conditions on scheduling phone screens: Developer is invited to a planning meeting but has not yet accepted and then gets booked for a conflicting phone screen.

Archive reasons should have long descriptions/reminder text/instructions in the app. For example, we "stole" Lever's "Wrong Motivations" archive reason but I'm sure that folks are not clear on what that means and when to use it. It would be great to have reminders/instructions in-app to help folks pick the best one.

Vorteile

Lever is a very intuitive product, and takes the recruiting efforts of any organization to the next level. The interface is extremely user friendly, and helps streamline candidate experience. Their Customer Success team is amazing, and they are always willing to go above and beyond for their clients.

I first came across Lever when I was leading recruiting efforts at a startup called Bluecore. I was all but settled on selecting Greenhouse as our ATS, not because I thought it was better than Lever, but simply because Greenhouse was the ATS that I heard the most buzz about. Before pulling the trigger, though, I decided it would be a good idea to see what else was out there, and at least take a look at another option or two. I reached out to my Recruiter network, and my buddy at Foursquare mentioned to me that they were using Lever, and that he really liked it. I set up a demo, and the rest is history. Lever knocked the demo out of the park, and I have had an amazing relationship with the company since.

When I eventually left Bluecore to become the Director of Talent at Docurated, I made sure during the interview process that I would be able to bring Lever with me. The product is continuously improving, and I look forward to being a part of the ride.

Nachteile

I don't really have anything negative to say about Lever, as I am a big proponent of all of it's functionalities. If I had to pick something, I would suggest that Lever start working with more job posting sites to enhance it's capabilities on the frontend. Blasting out job postings to Indeed and other top job sites, besides for just Glassdoor and LinkedIn (I think you can only do this if you purchase job posting slots from these sites), would be awesome. Right now I am using Built In NYC in additional to Lever to ensure I get the most bang for my buck in regards to driving inbound candidate flow.

Vorteile

The integrations with LinkedIn, HackerRank, Fetcher, Slack are amazing!

Nachteile

Please give us Hiring Manager Satisfaction Surveys and improve the automation feature!!

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At the moment nothing is good about this software

Nachteile

Merging had been disabled. We can no longer join new and old profiles into one profile.
New and existing profiles - we are no longer notified if a candidate may be a duplicate. Have you ever spoken with a candidate only to find out that they where not a good fit before?
Emails do not sync properly - Gmail will not be delivered if sent through Lever. We have found that we must copy and paste the email template to Outlook in order for the recipient to even receive the email. This has been going on for almost year.
Emails Part 2 - Entire threads of email conversations do not appear in Lever. They are missing so again we have to cut & paste entire conversations to place in the profile.
INDEED Candidates - These candidates must be forwarded into Lever. The same process we have done for 3 yrs, now all of a sudden are forwarding a separate entry of blank information which now must be deleted. It turns out that if you have an image in your signature on your email that is what creates the blank entry. SO if you have a logo, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter logo expect a blank entry. Customer Service told us we were doing it wrong. No their rollout was the most stupid thing we have ever worked with.
Different pipeline stages for different jobs makes no sense. You have 1 profile, you can have many jobs associated with that profile, you can have many hiring mangers for that 1 profile, they do not need to be all over the place.

Vorteile

- Intuitive and easy to use by all stakeholders
- Wide array of integrations and smart in-built features
- Exceptional implementation & support team - really know how to translate an org's needs into features that can be leveraged(thank you, [SENSITIVE CONTENT]!)
- For recruitment teams whose work is heavily dependent on sourcing, the Lever Chrome extension is gold!
- A true collaborative platform

Nachteile

- Access names are a bit confusing, but it does help to clarify them to stakeholders from the start
- Would love a more granular approach to location, since LinkedIn doesn't recognize a : "<Country>, Remote" format

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I have been a champion for Lever since I began using it over 4 years ago. It's an ideal ATS for small recruiting teams and has helped streamline the recruiting process while being the source of record for candidates. The platform has great integrations with sourcing tools, hiring platforms, and new-hire tools like background checks and HRIS systems. Overall, I have really enjoyed my time using this platform.

Nachteile

The cost can be pretty high for the basic software so I'm some smaller companies or startups would not be able to afford this technology.
I've always struggled with the reporting section. I find it highly confusing and I don't always feel the data is 100% correct. This can be hard as reporting on data in Recruiting is very important, and you want that data to be correct if sharing it with the leadership team or hiring managers.

Vorteile

♠︎ Candidate management♠︎ Job Posting / Linkedin integration♠︎ Recruitment processes management/control

Nachteile

♠︎ Some errors with the Linkedin integration

Vorteile

The ease of use. I am VERY busy. Being able to review resumes, see what stage viable candidates are in, etc. makes it quick and user-friendly. I don't have time for lengthy reviews or trying to contact other interviewers for feedback on candidates; it's all in here

Nachteile

nothing really other than one drop-down (Strong Hire,Hire, No Hire and strong No) needs another field or not be mandatory (ie. add second opinion needed, Maybe, etc since as managers we all look for different skill sets: someone may feel strongly about a candidate but when meeting at length at a later interview, they demonstrate skills that are terrific for the role)

Vorteile

Nurture campaigns, the emphasis on candidates vs job, reporting capabilities, and hyper customizable Feedback, Email, Interviews, + staging. Additionally, Customer Experience is beyond excellent. Any support you need, it's there, responsive, solution-oriented, and faster than you can blink.

Nachteile

I don't. I love Lever. I will name my firstborn after this robust product.

Vorteile

Lever is a recruiting tool that is strongest on the candidate side. It makes it easy for candidates to apply for roles, and the internal interview system is decent too, making it pretty easy to collect feedback from hiring managers. It connects with email and calendars well, and there are integrations for other recruiting and HR tools.

Nachteile

If you are looking for a great candidate database or an awesome way to track your reports, Lever is not the tool for you. The platform has reliability issues and terrible reporting functionality that makes it hard to get any meaningful data out of the system at all.

Vorteile

How easy it is to manage candidates and view interviewer notes

Nachteile

Not as customizable as some alternative options.

Vorteile

I like the candidate-centric focus. It is very easy for me to see into my team's pipeline.
The integrations are helpful to automate our hiring and onboarding.
The customer support has been excellent. My questions are answered quickly and correctly
Easybook is a great feature to simplify scheduling
The reports are easy to generate and manipulate

Nachteile

I would like it to be easier to get data out on a month over month basis.
I would like to add color/themes to the UI to make it more visually exciting.

Vorteile

Lever provided us with simple solutions to our problems. Candidate tracking and assessment are indeed easier with Lever. It manages resumes and applications sent. It can also schedule interviews and inform the interviewee through email. It does simple tasks but it works. Lever allowed our team to ease the choosing and categorizing process of applicants. It showed us better choices and the management of possible skills we need for our company. It gave us in-depth chances to filter out the applicant our company needs more.

Nachteile

Lever needs to provide new features and update their current ones. The features need more efficiency and polishing. It seems like Lever needs a more thorough filtering process and filtering options. Our team picks our top 10 applicants from Lever and it would be better if we are really choosing the best.

Vorteile

Applicant tracking for job from end to end management about a position.

Nachteile

Nothing much to say about least liked thing on the site, may be there shoudl be an option to say netral when putting in our review .

Vorteile

It integrates seamlessly with Gmail and Google calendar, which enables us to successfully schedule interviews and request feedback across the organization.

Nachteile

The search functionality is not always easy. There is a lot of human error involved in tagging candidates and appropriately updating their profiles to ensure we can find them later as needed.

Vorteile

Lever allows us to identify, target, reach-out, and keep track of great talent. If you use Lever the right way, it pays off for teams 2, 3, 4+ years down the road. It's a system that keeps on giving. I used lever at Grand Rounds for 4+ years, and we recently implemented at Sendoso.

Nachteile

They haven't integrated with Sendoso, yet.

Vorteile

The tag system, candidate stages, and email templates are excellent. Really all the features are great. I look forward to being able to customize the candidate stages & archive reasons, which is coming soon.

Nachteile

I don't like that candidate stages & archive reasons are currently not customizable. I also hope they keep the legacy reporting tools as well as their new data dashboards, because I find the legacy tools helpful.

Vorteile

Integration with Linkedin
Ability to schedule with panels directly from ATS

Nachteile

Metrics tracking
Surveys
Standardizing interviews

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Vorteile

Its very intuitive and also great for managing candidates pipelines and also communicating with candidates

Nachteile

Not much. A general calendar booking tool would be good as Easy book links are specific per job

Vorteile

What I like most about Lever is that is is very intuitive and have a clean appearance.

Nachteile

I wish that it had more capabilities around integrating into ADP.

Vorteile

- easy to navigate
- simple setup and settings management
- easy tracking of candidates and pipeline
- bulk actions
- collaboration: Notes features and secret notes
- Organization of tool, specifically on profiles: easy to find information and like that the features are separated out (Notes, Feedback, etc.)
- Integration with GCal and Gmail and Docusign
- can have agencies submit into the tool
- customizable feedback forms

Nachteile

- hard to customize certain processes
- can't customize access for all employees
- some features are unclear without explanation; help text sometimes doesn't provide clarity for the functionality
- difficult to build future pipelines or "project folders" for future sourcing
- agencies can't track their candidates in the tool (agency portal) so we have to manually keep them updated
- overall management of everyone's Lever access -- experienced many bugs in the backend and reoccurring issues

Vorteile

Love LEVER! It is an amazing ATS for our company. The software is organized and easy to use!

Nachteile

CUSTOMER SERVICE: horrible! There is NO phone service available for the customer service team, and that is insane. When asked why... The rep let me know they are "too busy now" to speak on the phone.

Vorteile

Applicants management, integrated workflows and options.

Nachteile

Could be a bit cheaper, that's all I would improve.

Vorteile

I've used Lever as a hiring manager and as an indivicual contributor, both in sales roles and at Yelp and Gong.io. What I like about the Lever is the friendly UI, search that actually works, and ability to customize work flows for interviewing. Lever makes it easy to refer people as well. There's a lot of ATS options on the market and I've used at least 5 of them now, and have to say Lever is near the top, if not the top. It's not as robust as say a Workday, but it gets the job done.

Nachteile

Since I'm not in recruiting and have never implemented Lever, I'm not sure I can really say what's not to like. I've heard the down side is Lever intergrates with a lot of systems, but there's not much native capabilities to get very customized, but they intergrate with all the platforms that 90% of tech companies use I think.

Vorteile

Lever is phenomenal! As an experienced Recruiter, I've used Lever, Greenhouse, and JazzHR, and Lever is by far my favorite! Lever can be implemented quickly and easily, and is a great price for the value. It's a very intuitive system and easy to use, thus ensuring 100% adoptability amongst employees and interviewers. The scheduling within Lever is easy, Feedback forms are straight forward, and the UI is sleek!

Nachteile

Like all other ATSs on the market, in order to get reporting to give any useful information, all jobs have to have the same stages.

Vorteile

Easy to review applicants, schedule interviews, and post jobs. Integrates with a lot of different softwares.

Nachteile

Reporting can be a bit confusing. Some things I still have to pull manually.

Vorteile

The UI is clean and straightforward. This definitely helps make navigating the actual system fairly simple and easy to do.

Nachteile

I'm not part of the team that implemented this system, but I was told by them that there weren't many options when it came to hiring manager permissions in the Lever system. This created problems when we grew into multiple tiers of hiring managers on our team and needed certain positions to have one level of access to candidates (that was a bit less than normal) and others to have a bit more. In addition, there seems to be a strange setting that alerts certain hiring managers of comments on certain candidates that have nothing to do with their department. So something seems to be off with the notifications as well.

Vorteile

I have worked with several ATS providers, and Lever stands out to me as the best. The software is easy to navigate for recruiters, hiring managers, and interviewers. The automations and integrations allow our talent acquisition team to recruit and hire very efficiently. Customer support is fast and helpful.

Nachteile

The analytics (for now) are not easy to read and take a lot of time to manipulate to get the data you want.

Vorteile

The ease of use is head and shoulders above any other platform I have used in the past!

Nachteile

No cons here! The features and functionality are much better than Greenhouse.

Vorteile

I think it works well. More processes could be automated. A few broken links that could make for easier user experience.

Nachteile

Integration with other apps would be nice

Vorteile

Lever has all of the features you would expect in an ATS - an easy to set up careers page, configurable roles and permissions, feedback forms, customizable steps in the interview process, scheduling, and more.

Nachteile

New team members often find it unintuitive to figure out how to add feedback. I also don't like the lack of formatting options in the feedback text boxes - for example, bullets copied in from a Word or Google Doc are lost, resulting in garbled text.

Vorteile

The amount of information that it pulls into one convenient tab is very helpful to get a snapshot of the candidates you are reviewing for open positions. I really like that it has both the resume as submitted and a simplified version without formatting so you can focus on the key elements that are important for your interview. I also like the review section that gathers feedback from the various people who interview the candidate.

Nachteile

For the price point I think this product as about as competitive as other similarly priced options and needs more to make it stand out. Everything works fine but it navigating the various screens and tabs can get overwhelming when you're looking for specific info. I don't find the search function particularly useful except to search for specific candidates by name.

Vorteile

It is easy to use and configure. The interface is pretty intuitive and it was easy for hiring managers to use without much training.

Nachteile

I felt there were some tradeoffs on configuration options to increase simplicity and ease of use. One example is that there are only a few basic mail merge tags available for creating for commonly used email templates (like interview confirmations). As a result you have to type in some of the information manually.

Vorteile

The UI of the software gives a very much interest in using the software

Nachteile

At the JD part can add the Download option for the JD

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I enjoy the uploading for it is quick and accurate.

Nachteile

I have no cons about lever it's been excellent.