Greenhouse Reviews & Insights

Score8.8 out of 10

360 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Greenhouse are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Efficient Interview Management: Users have found Greenhouse's interview management feature to be helpful for efficient and timely communication with candidates, hiring managers, and interviewers. This feature streamlines the hiring process and ensures alignment among stakeholders.

Seamless Integration: Many users appreciate the seamless integration of Greenhouse with other hiring tools. By eliminating the need for manual data entry and providing easy access to necessary information, this integration improves efficiency in the recruitment process.

Valuable Data Insights: Users highlight the valuable data insights and process improvement opportunities provided by Greenhouse's analytics and reporting capabilities. These features enable data-driven decision-making and optimize recruiting efforts.

Greenhouse Reviews

7 Reviews

Engineering

Greenhouse's usability stands above the rest.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 7, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I've used Greenhouse for applying and aggregating company applications. It addresses the problem of having to apply to many companies and keep track of the status of each.

Pros

The application almost never has bugs and works smoothly.
The UI is very well done and all tasks are articulated and displayed clearly to the user.
Once the applying process is complete it is clear and I'm not wondering whether there is anything else to do.

Cons

I'd like it if there was a way for me to sign in and see all the places I've applied and reuse information
Resume parsing can often be buggy and I'm better off not using it
Applications can be flooded with text and scrolling through all of it while trying to find the parts I need to do myself can be tedious.

Likelihood to Recommend

The space Greenhouse is in is very competitive and there are lots of applying-based services. I think for any company trying to make the applying process as easy as possible would do well with Greenhouse. The scenario I think would be not as necessary is for large companies that already are flooded with applicants, using Greenhouse may actually lead to an undesired effect of repeat applicants and too many unqualified applicants because of how simple it is.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (Defense & Space company, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Great Candidates Selection Tool

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

April 1, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Greenhouse has allowed our company to provide a well-designed path for the candidates (both internal and external) to have a clear way of their evaluations. They are starting from their resumes, covering the interviewing process, and providing feedback to them until a decision has been reached. The flow and design of the tool are well-thought and easy to use.

Pros

RESUMES
CANDIDATE FOLLOW UP
INFORMATION ACCURACY

Cons

COST
ACCESS
LANGUAGES

Likelihood to Recommend

Companies with defined resources pipelines can use this tool without a problem. The HR and Capacity departments should work together to get the candidates' information uploaded to the system. All the involved departments can start the interviewing process, both initial, technical, and soft skills. Small Companies seem like a no-go.

Francisco Bueno

SRE in Engineering at WIZELINE (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Organized and Efficient Employee Referral and Interview Software

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

September 9, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Greenhouse is currently used throughout all departments to facilitate the hiring process of new candidates. It allows current employees to refer new candidates and to also quickly run through the interview process and summary. Greenhouse allows easy scheduling of interviews and keeps all candidate information organized in one place for quick review.

Pros

Candidate referral system
Job interview summary
Organized job interview process

Cons

UI/UX could be improved

Likelihood to Recommend

When interviewing multiple candidates for a specific role, Greenhouse makes it easy to stay organized during the job interview process and employee referral system. There are also user friendly links that can be sent out on social media to share certain job posts.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (Internet company, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Greenhouse jobs system review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

April 22, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Greenhouse is being used as a way to post and collect work/job details from a variety of applicants across the board. I've been leveraging it as a user and a moderator. It is solving the business problems of data centralization and having a single system to manage specific selective career postings and is a great way to post information on a publicly viewable board.

Pros

HR management
Role posting
Detailed form and data collection

Cons

Proprietary
Support

Likelihood to Recommend

Greenhouse is a great tool to quickly spin up posts and distribute job listings to end users who may be applicants or referring other people to the organization. It would be less appropriate if you aren't hiring for people on a team or aren't involved in human resource management decisions.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (Information Technology and Services company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

A fresh data-driven approach to recruiting and hiring!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 21, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We had a great experience using Greenhouse for the complete applicant lifecycle, from recruiting to hiring to onboarding. The tool provided a seamless workflow every step of the way, and excels at clear communication and status reporting from all stakeholders. We used Greenhouse to simplify our recruiting and hiring pipeline.

Pros

Ensuring hiring process is equitable.
Dashboards to provide a data-centric approach to hiring goals.
Best-in-class mobile experience.

Cons

More integrations with 3rd party tools.
Spam filters occasionally flag legitimate emails.
Option for self-hosted service for heavily-regulated customers.

Likelihood to Recommend

For organizations of every size, Greenhouse is the best tool for managing the hiring process. We appreciated the ability to track candidate survey results to make sure that we were improving on all of our HR OKRs. The ability to set fine-grained permissions ensured that nobody was blocked yet we had a secure and auditable process.

Verified User

Administrator in Engineering (Biotechnology company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Recruitment with ease

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 21, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Greenhouse is used by HR and recruiting team of the company for recruitment management. Right from job requisition to referral to hiring happens through Greenhouse. Resume shortlisting to auto movement to next step happens.

Pros

Custom workflow for approval and review at all levels
Meaningful alerts and status updates
Profile tracking and referral management

Cons

Does not have comprehensive steps post selection or rejection of candidates profile

Likelihood to Recommend

[Greenhouse] is well suited where in multiple level of reviews of profile and candidates needed. One can easily customize applications workflow

Mitul Sampat

Project Lead Implementation in Engineering at CitiusTech (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

View profile

Greenhouse is a fantastic tool for tracking and managing the recruiting process

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 7, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Greenhouse is easy to use and has a great UI. Process flow and storage of information (resume, cover letter, candidate scoring) is very intuitive and straight forward. The search function makes it easy to find candidates and being able to at another user is helpful to notify someone of an action or if a candidate is better suited for them.

Pros

Easy to search for a candidate
Organizes information well
Notifies new candidates and candidates that have been in the system for some time

Cons

Have a flag to search out of state vs in state

Likelihood to Recommend

It is a great tool that fulfills our needs to track hiring for the Technology stack. The overall process flow of looking at candidates, reading resumes and cover letters is great. I think some areas of improvement is the search functionality (in state vs out of state) and also if rating candidate page could be integrated better with the current process flow of the candidate vs two different links.

Verified User

Manager in Engineering (Higher Education company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience