• Lever's interface is clean, intuitive, and easy to use.
• It's very collaborative and allows you to tag hiring managers and recruiters, and write notes around resumes and candidates for quick highlights.
• It has robust reporting capabilities to get the reports and metrics showing how well your team is doing, or where the funnel is catching for a job.

We were originally doing and organizing interviews via Excel and Google Docs, and were getting to a point where that was not the best solution. Initially, we utilized Lever as our main ATS to build out more optimized interviewing and recruiting processes. I've personally used it at 2 separate companies for a total of about 2.5 years. The key benefits it provides are the easy-to-use interface, the customizability of the user interface for applications, the easy-to-use screening tools and notes section, the privacy settings, and the affordability. It's an affordable ATS that helps you organize, understand recruiting metrics, and recruit easily.

• Lever’s integration options with third-party HRISs were not great, specifically with Paylocity or Rippling. It would be nice to see a more robust integration in which candidates would only have to input important contact information once throughout the whole process.
• Technical bugs/issues would happen specifically with the scheduling tool, so manual back and forth was usually the most reliable way to set the scheduling. It would be nice for them to partner with a great scheduling vendor.
• Lack of customizability. There wasn't a lot you could do around customizing the look and logo of job boards and such, it was very minimal. It would be nice to be able to customize a bit more.

Overall, Lever is definitely high up there. I would rate it second to Greenhouse. It's a much more affordable option with similar functionalities. Lever is the best for an up and coming start-up that values collaboration and has multiple people working on roles.

• Budget - Your budget is definitely important in making the decision. Lever is probably the best choice in the affordability category.
• Integrations - It's important to think about what you want your ATS to integrate into ( Usually an HRIS or payroll system). Lever may not integrate with all, so it is definitely important to take a look to make sure that it does.
• Reporting - Know what metrics are important to your team and org. Lever can help build the reports you need.
• Customization - If you want to customize the look of your job boards, you'll have very limited customization. but for the price, it's not too shabby!

Their customer service wait times have gotten significantly better. Also their user interface and usability evolves pretty quickly.

If your requisition load for roles does not exceed 50, Lever is a great fit. Most companies probably won't hit 50 until down the road. Until then, it's a great tool!

1. The tool is incredibly user-friendly and is optimized for collaboration and communication, both internally and externally.

2. It has an intuitive dashboard that makes it easy to manage and track applicants’ progress throughout the recruitment process.

3. The tool has powerful filters and search capabilities, making it easy to qualify job seekers quickly and accurately.

4. Lever has many automation capabilities, including interview scheduling, email campaigns, and even candidate sourcing.

We chose Lever because of its user-friendly interface. It has the ability to easily track, maintain, and analyze all hiring data. The different tools also help streamline the entire hiring process. Lever's reporting capabilities also provide insight into sourcing efforts. This enables us to identify areas for improvement. The archive tool is also great for keeping a pool of talent.

1. Price, may not be affordable for every company.

2. Many tools are useless for a very small business.

3. The interface might look boring to some people.

It is more user-friendly. Everything is tracked in the same place. The system begins to become intuitive as the project goes on. It integrates with other platforms, such as LinkedIn.

1. Do you need all of the tools? 2. Will you be hiring continuously, or only for a few roles?

Yes - the interface became more user-friendly, and it becomes more intuitive as it "learns" about the types of candidates you approve.

Corporation or large recruiting agency

• The ability to manage collaborative hiring with ease. This has reduced the need for email communications, and Slack messages with constant back and forth.
• The Lever UI is quite user-friendly, it is easy to use which makes it easy to introduce the platform to hiring managers and new recruiters with minimum training.
• The ability to integrate your calendar and availability of interviewers into Lever has allowed us to save a lot of time and effort in scheduling interviews with applicants. This reduces the efforts needed to schedule multiple rounds of interviews and also helps us with candidate communications which was a concern in the past.
• We are also able to get data driven reports which help us understand how we are doing on each job and make any updates as needed to ensure we are using processes which are effective.

Our team was growing and we were in a situation where we had to automate our recruitment process within the organization. We had many jobs open and various hiring managers, so managing it with spreadsheets and documents was getting difficult. The organization's time to close roles was too long as well.

After reviewing many ATS, we decided on Lever. We chose Lever because it had many customizations that would be useful to make sure we were able to make the ATS customized to the needs of our hiring managers, our collaborators, and our applicants.

We also felt that integrations Lever offers such as Zoom and Slack were an advantage as our organization was already using these applications within the organizations. We can use Zoom to schedule interviews and we use Slack to collaborate with candidates as well which is terrific. Personally, I have been using personally for over 3 years.

• While Lever has a great UI, sometimes for users who never have used an ATS, it can take a little time to learn how to use it, and the training available to us was pretty much online only.
• Support can be limited and slow on occasion, where we need to wait for a response via email which can sometimes cause delays
• The cost of the ATS is good only for larger teams, I think for small businesses the price of Lever may be higher than the benefits it brings especially if working with smaller budgets.

Lever's level of customization with workflows is better than many ATS that I have used in the past like Jazz and Bamboo which has helped us customize the platform to our organization's needs.

Lever's scheduling system with integrated calendars and the ability to send calendar invites is a huge plus which many ats do not have.

Lever's level of candidate communications is similar to most ATS, but I do like how quickly an email or message can be sent to a candidate.

One of the areas some alternatives are better is not having an App, when on the move, or working remotely an app can be a plus

I think the pricing is important for all organizations, determining your needs from how many open jobs you anticipate per year will help determine the cost incurred for each hire when using an ATS.

It is important to ensure the features your organization needs are provided by the ATS you chose. For instance, some companies may not want all workflows automated only a few. A basic

I believe they do have constant updates to their UI, and workflow options, and increase integrations as they come available.

One of the notable changes has been the diversity, equity, and inclusion section that they have included which has been beneficial in hiring in line with new talent acquisition policies of the organization which aim to reduce biases when hiring.

The Lever ATS can be a good fit for organizations of various sizes and industries, but I think it is well suited for teams with strong hiring collaboration, teams seeking data driven hiring results and lastly looking for an ATS that can handle scalability. With Lever, it is very easy to involve many team members in a single hiring process which makes it easy for us to work together. Reporting is essential for each organization, with Lever it is easier. Lever provides valuable insights with reports which can help find areas that need focus and improvement quickly. Lastly, with Lever, you can manage to scale with market fluctuations, economic changes, and updates to hiring needs where you can scale up or down as needed.