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Company blog · lever.co/blog · on HN as natepscareerbusiness
Lever is the company blog at lever.co, writing about career and business. Since 2014, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Lever – A modern web app for hiring”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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34mentions?
11HN people?
2014–2020first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments are mostly Lever's 'Who is hiring' job listings plus passing mentions of its applicant tracking software. None judge the writing; the linked pages cover its recruiting and hiring software.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Lever is modern recruiting software that combines ATS and CRM capabilities to help scaling teams nurture talent relationships and hire efficiently.
Most-linked posts?
- /4 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2017-08-15
- Lever – A modern web app for hiring4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-10-02
- /jobs.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-02-09
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-26
What Hacker News says?
Lever ( https://lever.co ) | San Francisco | Onsite We're creating collaborative hiring software on top of a unique all-Javascript stack. Our CTO Nate Smith and our engineering team have authored DerbyJS ( https://derbyjs.com ), the first and only open source MVC framework that syncs all data via Operational Transformation (the algorithm behind Google Docs and Wave) and renders everything on the server as well as th…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)”Submitted A black engineer's take on why diversity matters at startups as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLever (YC S12) | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | https://www.lever.co Lever builds modern recruiting software for teams to source, interview, and hire top talent. Our team strives to set a new bar for enterprise software with modern, well-designed, real-time apps. As the applicant tracking system of choice for Netflix, Eventbrite, Cirque Du Soleil, ClearSlide, change.org, and thousands more leading companies, Lever mea…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)”Submitted Here's What Engineers Hate About Your Recruiting Emails as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHi there! I'm Nate, Founder and CTO of Lever. Appreciate your feedback! As you've discovered, many B2B companies that primarily sell via inside or field sales do not post their pricing directly. Reserving the conversation around pricing until after you are in contact with a sales person is often helpful, because these products do have very different capabilities. We provide a consultative sales approach, listening c…
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on “Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit”Submitted Dear recruiters: Please treat me like a person, not a diversity stat as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLever (YC S12) | https://www.lever.co/ | San Francisco Lever makes hiring software for entire company collaboration. It enables recruiters to focus their time on more strategic efforts and managers to easily participate and keep on top of what's happening. Everyone in a company knows that Lever is a tool for them and that they are a part of growing their company. We're breaking the applicant tracking system mold, an…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)”Submitted Lever – A modern web app for hiring as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLever (YC S12) | San Francisco, CA & Toronto, ON | Onsite | https://www.lever.co Lever builds modern recruiting software for teams to source, interview, and hire top talent. Our team strives to set a new bar for enterprise software with modern, well-designed, real-time apps. As the applicant tracking system of choice for Netflix, Eventbrite, Cirque Du SoleiI, ClearSlide, change.org, and thousands more leading compan…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)”Lever (YC S12) | San Francisco, CA & Toronto, ON | Onsite | https://www.lever.co Lever builds modern recruiting software for teams to source, interview, and hire top talent. Our team strives to set a new bar for enterprise software with modern, well-designed, real-time apps. As the applicant tracking system of choice for Netflix, Eventbrite, Cirque Du SoleiI, ClearSlide, Change.org, and thousands more leading compan…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)”Lever (YC S12) | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | https://www.lever.co Lever builds modern recruiting software for teams to source, interview, and hire top talent. Our team strives to set a new bar for enterprise software with modern, well-designed, real-time apps. As the applicant tracking system of choice for Netflix, Eventbrite, Cirque Du SoleiI, ClearSlide, change.org, and thousands more leading companies, Lever mea…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)”Lever (YC S12) | San Francisco, CA & Toronto, ON | Onsite | https://www.lever.co Lever builds modern recruiting software for teams to source, interview, and hire top talent. Our team strives to set a new bar for enterprise software with modern, well-designed, real-time apps. As the applicant tracking system of choice for Netflix, Eventbrite, Cirque Du SoleiI, ClearSlide, Change.org, and thousands more leading compan…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)”Lever (YC S12) | San Francisco, CA & Toronto, ON | Onsite | https://www.lever.co Lever builds modern recruiting software for teams to source, interview, and hire top talent. Our team strives to set a new bar for enterprise software with modern, well-designed, real-time apps. As the applicant tracking system of choice for Netflix, Eventbrite, Cirque Du SoleiI, ClearSlide, change.org, and thousands more leading compan…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)”Lever (YC S12) | San Francisco, CA & Toronto, ON | Onsite | https://www.lever.co Lever builds modern recruiting software for teams to source, interview, and hire top talent. Our team strives to set a new bar for enterprise software with modern, well-designed, real-time apps. As the applicant tracking system of choice for Netflix, Eventbrite, Cirque Du SoleiI, ClearSlide, change.org, and thousands more leading compan…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)”Lever (YC S12) | San Francisco, CA & Toronto, ON | Onsite | https://www.lever.co Lever builds modern recruiting software for teams to source, interview, and hire top talent. Our team strives to set a new bar for enterprise software with modern, well-designed, real-time apps. As the applicant tracking system of choice for Netflix, Eventbrite, Cirque Du Soleil, ClearSlide, change.org, and thousands more leading compan…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)”I had a business that was a modern ATS. Then lever.co [1] came along, and I don't even think their business survived on the software alone as they had to transition into a full service recruiting/hiring company (but I could be wrong about this). [1] https://www.lever.co/
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on “Show HN: Applying for jobs? Manage all your interviews in one place”Even moreso than just a one person ranking, being able to have a team sign in, and different divisions and functional groups rank and prioritize their needs, and having it roll up into an organizational score. That is a place where you could monetize. https://www.scoutrfp.com/ and https://www.loopio.com/ play in this space. There's also the side of vendor management once you do make a selection. Even a service that…
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on “Launch HN: Satchel (YC S18) – Guides to the Best SaaS Tools”The target market for Google Hire was probably Lever's ( https://www.lever.co ) customers, i.e. mostly funded startups and other companies hiring white collar employees. For these businesses, $200-400/month for an Applicant Tracking System is pretty inline with market. Lever's pricing is higher as far as I've seen.
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on “Sunsetting Hire”I'm the founder and CTO of Lever ( https://www.lever.co ), a similar product and part of YC S12. I recommend you check us out! I was also a PM at Google from 2007-2011. A big part of why I left and founded Lever is that I'm super passionate about enterprise software, and vertical enterprise software (even in huge markets) isn't aligned well with Google's core business.
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on “Sunsetting Hire”Author of ShareDB ( https://github.com/share/sharedb ) here. ShareDB is a stable production JSON OT system that powers the entire backend for Lever ( https://www.lever.co/ ). All of Lever's apps, backend services, migration scripts, etc. go through ShareDB. It scales horizontally; over 1000 companies use Lever, including companies with 1000s of employees, like Netflix and Yelp. There are some simple examples in the…
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on “A Conflict-Free Replicated JSON Datatype”waves Y'all are talking about me. I was indeed on the wave team, although I joined Wave right near the end. (And then I stayed on to help opensource the whole thing.) We wrote ShareDB at Lever[1], which was in the 2012 YC batch (iirc). We wrote it to allow realtime collaborative editing in our application of all our data fields by default. I'm still really proud of that work. ShareDB primarily uses JSON-OT[2], which…
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on “Real Differences Between OT and CRDT for Co-Editors”At Lever, we've got roles that are 100% focused on very cool open source technology, such as helping to scale and improve our unique web framework DerbyJS. We are working on cutting edge JavaScript rendering strategies as well as distributed data syncing via Operational Transformation, which is how Google Docs and Google Wave work. We are also excited for our product engineers to get involved in helping to improve o…
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on “Getting paid to work on open-source?”Check out Lever (YC S12) if you want a tool to help with more of this: https://www.lever.co/hire I'm one of our founders and CTO, and we individually contact every applicant to our jobs. Lever has the ability to respond via a general email address for your company or your own email, so you can choose the appropriate level of personalization per email template.
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on “Ask HN: Hiring managers what would it take for you to reply to every applicant?”Lever (YC S12) is a modern Talent Acquisition Suite, and we hear from our customers that writing rejection emails is really difficult, especially when you want to leave a good impression. Here are some tips we wrote up: https://www.lever.co/blog/how-to-write-human-rejection-lette...
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on “Ask HN: Hiring managers what would it take for you to reply to every applicant?”This is the first announcement that has been published for the current round. We have additional press links from a variety of sites on our press page: https://www.lever.co/press
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on “Lever (YC S12) Raises $20M for Hiring Software at Netflix, Reddit and Lyft”Thanks for the feedback! It is great to hear that you've been finding that companies using Lever tend to be high quality and are interested in a way to get to them more directly. Thus far we haven't focused on this, as there are quite a number of job boards from the super general to specialized niches. Actually, most companies have been finding that they are bringing more and more recruiting in house. Agencies and s…
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on “Lever (YC S12) Raises $20M for Hiring Software at Netflix, Reddit and Lyft”So much to do! We believe that talent acquisition is the most important thing that each company needs to master in order to be successful at its core purpose. This might sound obvious now, but it is pretty new! Thus, most companies are still figuring a lot out when it comes to recruiting. I'm sure we have a lot to learn as well, and what we've learned so far is years in the making. Lever Nurture ( https://www.lever.…
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on “Lever (YC S12) Raises $30M for Effort to Transform Hiring”Lever's products are quite different. We believe that in order predictably master your hiring goals, you must go beyond applicants and get in front of the best candidates for your company. You must go outbound with sourcing, referrals, and more—speaking to the people that are the very best fit for your team's needs. Applicants are a vital piece of the puzzle, and Lever absolutely provides all of the features that ap…
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on “Lever (YC S12) Raises $30M for Effort to Transform Hiring”Hi Nate, Wanted to give you a heads up that I'm seeing a blank screen your "Our story" page. Chrome. No console errors. There is markup in source. https://www.lever.co/our-story
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on “Lever (YC S12) Raises $30M for Effort to Transform Hiring”Hey! I'm Nate, one of the founders of Lever and our CTO. Sourcing is a word that companies and recruiters use to mean going out and finding candidates that aren't looking for a job (passive), but that have a really high relevance to what the company is looking for. As hiring has gotten increasingly competitive, companies have been finding that the best candidates usually come from a personal connection. The best can…
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on “Lever (YC S12) raises $10M to make hiring awesome”