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What does Greenhouse Software do?

Tool: Greenhouse Software

The Tech: Applicant Tracking System

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Their Pitch

The only hiring platform you’ll ever need.

Our Take

An applicant tracking system that uses AI to handle the tedious parts of hiring — scheduling interviews, scoring candidates, and posting jobs everywhere at once.

Deep Dive & Reality Check

Used For

  • +**Your interview scheduling is a nightmare of email chains and calendar conflicts** → AI automatically matches interviewers, checks availability, and replaces people who can't make it
  • +**Candidates get lost in your hiring pipeline and you have no idea where anyone stands** → Real-time dashboards show exactly who's stuck where and why your time-to-hire is 60 days
  • +**Every recruiter evaluates candidates differently and you can't compare apples to apples** → Standardized scorecards with AI-generated interview questions keep everyone rating the same things
  • +Fraud detection flags fake applications and spam before they hit your inbox — one user blocked 30% of junk applications in the first month
  • +Posts to 1,000+ job boards from one place instead of manually copying job descriptions everywhere

Best For

  • >Your recruiters are drowning in 20+ back-and-forth emails just to schedule one interview
  • >Hiring 50+ people a year and your current system is held together with spreadsheets and prayer
  • >You're big enough that manual coordination is killing your team but small enough that $30k/year hurts

Not For

  • -Teams under 50 people — you're paying $20k+/year for features you'll use twice
  • -Companies wanting something simple that works out of the box — this needs 2-3 weeks of setup and a dedicated admin
  • -Anyone on a tight budget — the sticker price is just the beginning, integrations and add-ons double your costs

Pairs With

  • *ADP or Workday (your HRIS system where employee data actually lives after someone gets hired)
  • *Google Calendar (where the AI scheduling magic happens — checks conflicts and books interviews automatically)
  • *Slack (where recruiters complain about mandatory scorecard fields and celebrate when someone finally gets hired)
  • *CLEAR or similar (for identity verification to catch fake candidates)
  • *BambooHR (for smaller companies who need simpler onboarding after Greenhouse handles the hiring)
  • *Zoom (where the actual interviews happen, integrated so links get sent automatically)
  • *Indeed/LinkedIn (where your job posts go — Greenhouse pushes to 1,000+ boards but these are the ones that actually matter)

The Catch

  • !Setup takes 2-3 weeks despite the "intuitive" marketing — custom fields and reporting trip up most new users
  • !The candidate mobile portal has bugs that cause 10-15% of applicants to drop out mid-application
  • !Support tickets take 3-5 days to resolve, so when something breaks during a hiring push, you're stuck

Bottom Line

The enterprise-grade hiring machine that costs enterprise prices even if you're not enterprise size.