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Founder and CTO of Lever, here.

We are so thankful to our many users in the YC community. Would love to hear from anyone already using Lever or companies looking for tools to help them refine their hiring process on how we can continue to improve. I'll be following along today and respond to any ideas!

Hiring is the most difficult and important thing most companies and founders have to learn, and we are hoping to do our part in providing software to make it more successful and a better candidate experience. We believe the very best hiring is accomplished by building long lasting relationships with candidates.

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I hope you guys replace Taleo as soon as possible. I can't believe how many companies use that garbage. Whenever I see it, I automatically back out.

We certainly do hear from candidates that appreciate how much simpler it is to apply for a job with Lever on a regular basis. Not just that, but when companies have better tools internally, the candidate experience becomes much more personal. For just one small example, when you send an email to a candidate with Lever, we default to sending from your real email address and then use IMAP to sync the emails from your inbox. It is technically more difficult to implement than forwarding the email through some random email address like XXXX123-reply@ats-product.com, but the difference in establishing a real human connection is worth it.

Congrats! Lever is a joy and probably my favorite hiring tool I use at RealScout. Can't wait to see what is to come in the next few years.

(HackerRank integration would be awesome!)

Thanks so much! In fact, statements like this from our customers were our very best asset in fundraising. We literally would not have been successful without you.

The partners at Scale told us this was one of the most important factors in their decision; they told us they almost never see the same kind of customer passion from other Enterprise SaaS products.

100% hear you on HackerRank integration. We've rolled out a number of integrations on the sourcing side of things the past few months, and we are so excited to grow our coverage to every single tool that our customers use alongside Lever. We have a great relationship with the team at HackerRank, so I am looking forward to it as well. :-)

Congrats, we at Rainforest love you guys :D

Awww, shucks. Love you too! :-)

Congrats to you and the team, Nate! We have several shared customers and they all speak very highly of Lever.

Thanks so much, Chris! Yep, http://interviewed.com/ is an awesome product as well. Glad that YC companies have been moving the needle in the hiring space.

High quality, repeatable assessments of candidate's real work is so much better than unstructured interviews with under-prepared and inconsistent interviewer training. We're looking forward to more integrations with all of the companies providing great tools that improve the relationship between candidates and companies.

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