Lever's mission is to help the world hire with conviction. Our fresh take on the talent acquisition system combines powerful ATS and CRM functionality in a single, modern platform—so employers can source, nurture, and manage candidates all from one place.
Lever (lever.co) has 361 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 4.6 out of 5.
Also known as
lever.co
Website
lever.co
Category
HR & Recruiting
Location
San Francisco, California
Listed on Five Star Index
2026
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We moved from Hiring Thing to Lever over the past 8 weeks and I am extremely happy with Lever. The process was well timed and planned. Our project manager made it easy to understand the milestones and kept us focused as we made decisions.
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Alexandra S.
Strong ATS with great candidate nurture capabilities
Awesome ATS that allows our recruiting team to move fast and hire at the rate that we must move, as well as manage the candidate experience and relationship building
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Danny A.
Awesome experience
Awesome candidate and recruiter-centric features and reporting out of the box, and automation/customization to make the workflow smoother and faster. Great implementation and training experience as well, was able to get the platform live in a compressed amount of time. Support team is responsive and helpful. Great knowledge base to use during implementation and post go-live.
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Maria L.
A great tool to support with hiring in a scale-up phase
My company is going through an exciting scale-up stage, and to support the company with hiring efforts; we decided to modernize our recruitment stack.
Implementing Lever was very easy across the whole organisation - the implementation specialist - Katie - offered top-notch support during the whole implementation journey. The migration of candidate data from our previous ATS went seamless.
Since adoption, the hiring team saved lots of time in sourcing and gathering the interview feedback, allowing us to automate several critical tasks.
Lever has all of the features we were looking for - an easy to set up careers page, configurable roles and permissions, feedback forms, communication templates, customizable steps in the interview process, scheduling, referrals, internal applications management and a compelling customizable analytics dashboard.
And above all, it has a game-changing Nurture feature that Lever is the only ATS I'm aware of offers that allow the team to engage candidates at scale through personalized email campaigns.
Cons: Not a big issue, however worth mentioning:
i)my previous ATS had a mobile app I used daily - Lever doesn't have one
ii) there's no local support in Europe which leads to either asynchronous communication per email or meetings that can take place late afternoon only.
iii) impossible to upload a picture (of the hiring team, for example) to the job ad, something that was possible with my previous ATS
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Bill C.
Lever ATS and implementation: A+
Transitioning from our previous ATS to Lever has been such an easy process. We have been able to continue to more our candidate/hiring pipeline forward as we continued to implement some of the other functions of lever.
Now that we are fully implemented into the Lever system it has provided us with better candidate management and reporting. I can't stress enough how thrilled we are with Lever and the difference it has made for us!
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Emily M.
Great ATS for a small HR team
Lever provides valuable insights for a small HR team lacking a dedication recruiter. We were able to streamline our process, implement standardized feedback forms, and more easily communicate with candidates at every step of the process. We love having a single source of truth and know that Lever will be able to grow with our team.
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Ryan H.
Lever ATS
Lever has helped us automate so many different things that we were previously doing manually - reporting, emailing candidates, interview scheduling, interview feedback.
Our recruiters can focus so much more on the candidate relationship experience.
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Michaela H.
Strong CRM+ATS tool
The implementation phase of Lever was superb (thanks to Katie), I also really like the customer care and the way the product team thinks of the roadmap of Lever.
The adoption of the product went well, our managers are very happy with that and recruiters as well.
The product is smart, it is limiting mistakes on the user end which is great. On the other hand, as we are a company of larger size, certain workflows are not granular enough and it creates issues on the go (as it is harder for us to set up certain automations or workflows). Also, Lever should work harder on their GDPR setup and make it more granular as it is needed for European based companies.