TrustRadius Insights for Lever are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Recommendations
Based on the user reviews, users commonly recommend the following for Lever:
Test and customize Lever thoroughly to ensure it is fully customizable for the organization's needs. They suggest taking advantage of Lever's implementation team during the first month and mapping out templates and processes before using the software.
Utilize Lever's support and training resources, as users find them accommodating and knowledgeable about Lever's features. They highly recommend attending startup sessions to properly set up Lever and maximize its capabilities.
Compare Lever with other recruitment systems to ensure it is the right fit for the organization. Users recommend trying out Lever in comparison to other software options like Greenhouse or Workable, especially for early-stage or smaller companies.
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Lever Reviews
5 Reviews
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We had two large hiring influxes over the last year that we needed a way to coordinate and funnel candidates through. Having thousands of applicants makes the funnel process super important and Lever helped us set this up. Lever also provided the job description pages that we had everyone apply through so that we had a standardized structure for applications
Pros
Funnels candidates from start to finish of the process
Allows for scheduling interview with candidates
Cons
Their scheduling tool is super rigid and doesn't support multiple interviewers very well
The product requires quite a bit of setup before it becomes as efficient as you'd like
Likelihood to Recommend
Lever probably has too much overhead for a company of our size and we would frequently run into issues that would require an outsized amount of effort to resolve
In my company Lever is being used across all departments. All candidates who wants to apply for a position has to go through Lever. Since we're actively hiring new folks Lever helps organize the open positions and applications, keep track of interviews and their statuses, manage referrals and more. From an employee perspective, Lever helps me refer anyone I know who might a best fit for a position and also keep track of their progress through several stages of interviews.
Pros
Easy to use
Great support for implementation
Everyone on interview process have access
Different levels of access
Cons
Could have better LinkedIn integration
Lack of dedicated manager dashboard
Reporting can be improved
Likelihood to Recommend
Lever is well suited for fast growing startups who are actively hiring. For larger organizations Lever might not have all the granular control which they might be looking for from a platform like this. Since Lever is easy to setup and has great implementation support, it adds to the fact that smaller companies can take advantage of this.
We used Lever for several months as a trial, during a period of reevaluating our recruiting and hiring pipeline process. Even though we ultimately went with another vendor, we learned a lot of best practices from Lever and would still recommend it to others based on certain criteria. Namely, the support for integrations with major 3rd party vendors like GSuite, LinkedIn, and Slack were impressive and saved a lot of work. Secondly, the interview scheduling feature was the best out of all the vendors we evaluated, and would be a game-changer for any organization that struggles with keeping up with scheduling tasks.
Pros
Scheduling management is a breeze.
3rd party integrations are well-designed.
UI is snappy and responsive.
Cons
As others have mentioned, the single sign on feature does not play well with API access.
UI can be a bit busy.
Price point not worth it for us.
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for organizations that struggle to keep up with a huge pipeline of applicants and interviews. The automatic scheduling feature would be a huge time-saver in this area for many teams.
Lever is currently being used across our whole organization as the preferred tool for organizing recruitment and the overall process from posting job, interview, review, and finally, making an offer.
Pros
A lot of integrations with various tools, e.g., Slack, google suite, LinkedIn
form customizations
Cons
Auditing, e.g., see the history who has accessed the profile
History or revision
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are an organization that is looking to consolidate, organize the recruitment process -- Lever tool is definitely for you. On the other hand, if it's a smaller company, you would have to invest a lot since someone needs to maintain the configuration of the recruitment process and it might be tedious.
Lever is used as a recruiting and referral program for finding candidates for employment. Lever is used by all employees to submit referrals for job postings, and the talent acquisition/recruitment team uses Lever to reach out to candidates, schedule interviews, keep notes, and push candidates through the hiring workflow. Those who are part of the hiring committee, or been asked to participate in an interview are given tasks to review the candidates resume and provide feedback from the interview. Lever keeps everything centralized and keeps the workflow moving.
Pros
Keeps candidates information and interview notes organized
The interface is pretty simple to navigate
Provides a public facing page to list all of your available job postings
Cons
Product offering levels seems to be mismatched. You can get single sign on, but API access is separate. Turning on SSO will break the API.
The integration into G Suite for mail and calendar when using subdomains and SSO.
Doesn't support the use of multiple sub domains very well. We ended up accidentally duplicated every user account and then temporarily lost all candidate notes and feedback.
Likelihood to Recommend
Lever is good as an introductory hiring management solution where you start receiving 50 - 100 applications for a position. It works well with a smaller number of candidates and when there are fewer people involved in the process. Once you start getting several hundred people into the system and you are implementing things like SSO, which most enterprise companies use, things become very complicated and can get messed up very easily.
