On: Sunsetting Hire

[nateps]

I'm the founder and CTO of Lever, YC S12. I also worked at Google as a PM prior to founding Lever.

Let me know how I can help if anyone has questions! We're a great alternative to Google Hire.

[stuartleigh → nateps]

One of the biggest drivers for me picking google hire over Lever or Workable or one of the alternatives was the pricing model. By charging based on the size of the company and not the number of job slots it removed one of the biggest pains we had which was the constant juggling of putting specs live and archiving some as the priorities changed. £300 p/month for essentially unlimited slots was unbeatable.

What is the feedback and calendaring integrations like with Lever and gSuite?

[nateps → stuartleigh]

Lever charges on company employee size as well! You can have as many job postings as makes most sense for your talent marketing / candidate experience.

Lever's G Suite integration for both calendaring and email is quite extensive. In addition, we have a feature called Easy Book that enables candidates to book their own interview times, especially useful for phone screens. Here's more with some screenshots: https://help.lever.co/hc/en-us/articles/360025622851-How-to-...

[jacob_rezi → nateps]

Wow cool to find you like this.

We built a resume software which focuses exactly on working with ats (https://rezi.io/)

We plan to make resume formats specific to certain types of ATS, Lever being amongst the first we hope to work with.

Any way this message can spark that conversation? Our users & hiring partners love the idea.

[nateps → jacob_rezi]

Send me a note, <first name>@lever.co, and we'll take it from there!

[shusson → jacob_rezi]

https://rezi.io is returning a 500 page :(

[jacob_rezi → shusson]

thanks for the notice - all sorted now

[mjfisher → nateps]

Hi Nate. I've recently launched a service for managing coding challenges for recruitment through git (https://candidatecode.com).

I'm keen to start offering some lightweight integrations for a few ATS - is there anyone you can point me to in Lever that might be able to kick off that discussion?

[nateps → mjfisher]

Sure thing. Send me a note and I can forward

[2arrs2ells → nateps]

Nate - why do you think Google shut down Hire? When it launched, did you see any path for it to become a major ATS player, given Google's impatience?

Thx & hope Lever scoops up a bunch of customers from the transition (if Hire even had a bunch of customers!).

[nateps → 2arrs2ells]

As many of the news articles have talked about, Google Hire's origin was the acquisition of Bebop. Some discussion on this HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10839516

In this case, I know that Diane Greene advocated for her team to have the opportunity to launch their product, which they had been developing in stealth from 2012-2016.

I haven't worked there for some time now, but Google has historically supported teams in launching into the market through experiments, labs, new product launches, etc. However, Google's current scale makes it very difficult for a new product to be worth improving and maintaining. They must make billions in revenue directly or indirectly to show up in a meaningful way. In most cases, products are given a few years, tested for impact, and ultimately the most likely outcome is that a product will fail when that is the bar. It is not entirely different from the reality of a startup—the majority of startups don't last either.