Lever Reviews & Product Details

It's an easy to learn recruiting software. All in one software.

Some functionalities don't work as they should. For example, little details like sourced isn't changeable to another name if you were the one to create the candidate.

Benefits: All scheduling gets done on one platform. Communication between multiple people can be handled via lever.

Easy to understand and lots of meaningful data can be pulled from the platform. Easy roll out to the company and tools have improved over the years of use.

Job description page is lacking. A lot of functionality is "eh". Adding job templates can be a pain in the neck especially since the font pack lever has doesn't always match with everyone company fonts. Charging additional for ZOOM integration is actually going to make me look at Greenhouse in more detail this year. To charge for an integration which makes the recruiters life more difficult is awful .

Tracking and moving candidates through a funnel.

The ability to pull from a variety of different sources for candidates.

Lack of flexibility with external job page design and content

Managing candidates from various different souces

Lever's customer support is the best along with the recent Zoom integration.

I dislike how we have to ask someone to add more stages instead of doing it ourselves.

Lever really helps with easy scheduling and I love how they integrated with Zoom.

Really simple to use and has a wide range of functionality. Easy to have the whole team engaged in the TA process!

Its quite expensive relative to some of the others we have evaluated. Though having been using it for over a year we liked it enough to renew!

Managing the high volume and breadth of candidates going through our TA pipeline, and making sure we deliver an outstanding experience to our candidates,

Lever does a nice job of helping keep things organized throughout the interview lifecycle. The easy team collaboration is good too. Your Customer Support folks are top-notch!

The amount of downtime is a real problem. There's also little bugs like when I send an email to someone through Lever I have to click the dropdown "template" button twice for it to scroll.

Better organization and collaboration with team members.

The ability to seamlessly add candidates and move them through the process. Being able to snooze them is a really cool feature too.

It's expensive. Today, I spoke with another person about an ATS that is very similar and is less than half the price.

It allows me to post jobs, keep track of candidates, complete the EEOC paperwork, add users. Benefits - I've made hires, so I guess that's a benefit.

I like the ability to track communications with applicants in a central place, and tracking notes from interviews and progress

not super intuitive how to get different sections to format or to find things at first glance

it has helped with centralized planning and communication with applicants

Syncing with Gcal and email. Merge features makes re-applications much easier. Design is good, aesthetically & functionally

Dislike -- poor sorting mechanism, have to contact support to add new stages (archive, bad timing, hired etc) Report feature is okay but limited

Scheduling is much easier. Tracking applicant history. Merge feature makes re-applications much easier

Lever is super user-friendly from the recruiter perspective and I love the way it organizes and showcases updates.

The reporting from the manager side of things is lacking (unless you pay a ton of money for the upgrades). There needs to be a better way to analyze my teams pipeline.

We are able to respond quickly to candidates and see all of their information at one time. It is great to see their past history of applying with our company and have feedback all in one place.

The automated feedback forms and interview scheduling! The predictive reporting is also really helpful.

The dashboard is a little cluttered and not always the info I'm looking for. The price for the level of work at a SMB is also a bit steep. For evergreen roles, it can be a bit different to manage. It's clearly setup for more enterprise hiring efforts. which is great if you're enterprise. But this is a SMB review.

Automation of recruitment process, clear reporting and information sharing across the team.

Easy book links built into the system are great, and there's a lot of functionality with Lever. Collecting feedback from hiring managers is automated, and the offer approval process is built in as well.

Lever is not very user intuitive, and it's not easy to see all your candidates in various stages. A lot of functions of lever don't make sense, like why you only have an option to revise an offer and not to edit. Certain things like salary, start date, etc should be things you need to reroute approval for, but not for everything. Additionally, there are strange information privileges levels that don't seem to be a fit for all occasions. I don't like that once I'm a job under "jobs" tab there's no way to click into candidates of that job. You should also be able to limit the amount of phone screens you can have in a day, sometimes I'll have 6-7 phone screens in a day which is just too many to have quality calls with all of them. If a you move a candidate to an active stage, lever should remind you to schedule that candidate, much like it reminds you about feedback. Also, easy book links should work outside of sending them in Lever, so you can use them in places like linkedin.

I didn't get to choose lever at my current employer, and given the choice I would like to see other options. Having the easy book link schedule my calls is very helpful, though.

Having all applicants in place and getting statistics.

Glitches and confusing integrations (normally get fixed).

ATS/getting and tracking applicant statistics.

Lever has tons of features and makes it possible to track candidates through the entire process of sourcing, interviewing, and making an offer, including multiple detailed, custom forms for different roles and interviews.

The user interface can be rough, especially around configuring roles. My colleagues often fill in interviews with "n/a" instead of marking that they didn't attend an interview, which happens so often that the user interface must be at least partly to blame.

Tracking candidates and interview feedback in Lever has worked very well for us. It's now possible to collect feedback and track candidates through the whole process.

I like the categories of the hiring pipeline and being able to see which stage each candidate is in.

The offer approval process and closing out an offer is a bit of a cluster.

Keeping everyone on the team on the same page about each candidate and each candidate stage.

I think Lever has a solid interface, is really well designed, and fairly intuitive overall.

Lever's standard reporting capability is far below par, and their ability to integrate with other solution pales in comparison to its competitors. While a full-solution product is great in theory, completely foregoing integrations with other providers makes adoption frustrating.

Trying to solve a variety of recruiting problems, as well as reporting needs. Haven't yet seen the gains in these areas.

Flexible and simple for small companies without complexity such as a detailed job application, knock-out questions, etc.

Cannot make pipeline stages required, integration to other HCM systems is not strong (e.g. ADP), need auto-trigger to send out notifications to teams within the company when marked as "Hired", offer letters should be dynamic that is there shouldn't be any templates (rather a more customizable and save option), so if a Recruiter wants to copy an 'offer' letter, they should be able to including the placeholders.

Problems solved are basic integrations, offer letter templates, and benefits are the on the go approval process

It easily sent me the interview schedule and the candidates resume. It even sent me a reminder for the interview and an email after the interview to review the candidate. Easy to use, self explanatory

It was kind of creepy that the hiring manager could see what I was typing for the candidate review as I was typing. They may want to change that

A centralized place to do recruiting

With the addition of features like Nuture, Lever has made it even easier for our team to communicate and move quickly through our hiring process. We are a small company and the hiring team usually has limited resources for recruiting. Tools that help us track decisions and centralize communication, allow others to pick up slack when people are busy so our interview process never loses momentum. Not to say Lever doesn't have it's flaws, but the support team is responsive and open to product ideas.

Exporting data in order to perform our own analyses and reports is difficult and poorly formatted.

We are able to track our candidate pipeline, organize our interview process, and communicate across teams in an efficient and repeatable manner.

Usability on lever is what brought us to the product. Also thought it would be a good product as we scaled the team and did more structured interviews.

Metrics! These are extremely confusing and it's very difficult to replicate results.

We are able to stay organized as a recruiting function. It becomes our single source for truth.