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.
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lever.co
Website
lever.co
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HR & Recruiting
Location
San Francisco, California
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2026
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We are a recent customer of Lever and have been using the ATS for about a month. The implementation process was smooth all thanks to our implementation manager, Monika. We had many questions and requests, which she was able to accommodate very well. The ATS is robust and intuitive. I am amazed at its automated features and the ability to streamline the entire interview process.
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Ene K.
Lever is very good ATS that makes…
Lever is very good ATS that makes recruiters life easier. Flexible, customization and user friendly. Suitable for different sizes companies. Implementation team is professional and responsive.
Recommend it for everyone who needs a flexible and user friendly ATS
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Valerie
Lever is great!
Lever is great!
As a repeat customer, I think Lever is quite simple to use and offers great features to help teams keep the hiring process moving. I love the control I have over e-mail templates, delayed responding, snoozing candidates, the pipeline, and integrations.
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Mie M.
Lead to efficiency up!!
We wanted some hiring tracking system that could be implemented quickly and easily, it was also important that it could be used from other branches. We’ve found that the system is intuitive and hiring managers found comfortable to start Lever, with all the kind and strong support from implementation specialist, Kiele! Lever has provided so efficient solutions for our company!
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Jake S.
Intuitive, Effective, Innovative.
Pros:
- Scheduling interviews have never been easier for our Talent Team. Our conference rooms are linked to Lever so we can do everything without checking Google Calendar!
- Easy to use interface. Every tab, page, and profile is very user-friendly, with the recruiter/hiring manager in mind.
- Sending candidates a link to schedule their phone interview cuts down on the back and forth.
- Communication between approvers, hiring managers and interviewing team is ridiculously easy that even my mom can use Lever.
- Automatic job posting to external job boards. Super easy to use for niche job boards as well!
- The referral system is super easy for folks who don't use Lever on a daily basis.
- Customizable application per posting. SUPER easy. I love this feature.
- Reports are very easy to pull and read.
- Recruiters have control over who they involve in the hiring process. Before when we didn't have Lever, all hiring managers had access to every single job posting and its applicants in front of them. Now, we assign them to specific jobs they own. They can't see anything else.
- Lever Extension on Chrome is insane, in a very good way. Extremely helpful when you're sourcing candidates on LinkedIn!
- Andrew is great. Always there when we had questions and always willing to hop on a call with us.
- Implementation phase was super quick and simple. The Lever team did whatever we asked and in turn, we did whatever they asked.
Cons:
- Requisition approval needs fine tuning. When we decide to hire internally for a requisition that has already been approved, we have to delete the current req and add another one indicating it was an internal hire in order for us to report on the number of internal hires. There's very little you can do with a req once it's been approved without getting the approvers involved again.
- Offer approval is backward, in my opinion. The letter should be drafted first, then sent out to the approvers for their review. Right now, it's approval first, then offer letter draft.
- Referrals are counted as "applicants" and not "leads." That's crazy to me.
- Once a lead has applied through our careers website, we have to manually move them from the lead bucket to the applicant bucket. There's no automatic transfer. No notification, either.
Bottom line: In my opinion, Lever is the best ATS out there. Beats its competitors by at least a mile. Keep up the great work!
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David F.
Great ATS!
The implementation was very quick and smooth. Also, Andrew did a nice job training the Recruiting team as well as the hiring managers and executives. The took is very intuitive and easy to use!
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Alyssa
Lever is good with the potential to be …
Lever is good with the potential to be great, in my opinion. We recently went live with the product and so far our recruiters like it and our hiring managers are giving us good feedback too. It truly is intuitive and user-friendly, and does not bog our staff down with an abundance of options or layers. We’re tying up loose ends, but we feel confident that Lever is going to help us significantly with structured interviewing as well as keeping our processes consistent across the globe. The only drawback is that the product is immature so some of the components are not completely fleshed out. For example, they are still working on integrations with 2 products that are critical to our operations: O365 and Workday. And we cannot complete the offer process through the system either as applicant information does not flow to it and negotiation with the candidate is not possible at this time. However, I believe that Lever is constantly working on improvements and we see that they are committed to excellent service. I also got some insight to the company and know that their workers have fun and trust that their leaders are taking the company where it needs to go.
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Carrie Z.
The Lever team is great to work with!
The Lever team is great to work with, and very responsive! Everyone (from the CS team who handles tickets to our implementation specialist) has been incredibly professional and helpful. The product itself has some great features as well for recruiters (LinkedIn cross-functional integration, Google Chrome Extension, nurture campaigns, "send for" feature, GoodHire background check integration to name a few). I know our recruiting team is very involved with the nurture campaigns to engage passive talent, and thus far, we've had great success with it. The platform UX is also very clean and intuitive for the most part; I've received positive feedback from our hiring managers who use Lever as a way to check on the health of their pipelines. Overall, I would recommend the platform to colleagues who are looking to upgrade their ATS. :)
That said, I would have to caution anyone who is currently on Outlook Exchange, as the integration with Lever's scheduling tool isn't fully compatible. I can only speak on behalf of our experience, but we're running into some serious setbacks here (reschedules and cancellations in lever's scheduling tool don't reflect on the calendars in Outlook, so we wind up have to double schedule and double cancel whenever interview times change; conference rooms can't be booked through Lever; interviewer availability can't be viewed in the system). This is something I know the team is working hard to correct, so fingers crossed we'll be able to find a solution soon!