[darkwater]

Can anyone tell me why Ashby is so en vogue in SV and also the rest of the world? My company recently switched to it and as an EM I feel... disappointed? What's so special about it to have yet another hiring system with VC money?

[eudamoniac]

I last applied for jobs in 2022 and never saw it. This year it's the majority of the jobs using it. I don't know where they came from but they seem to be eating everyone's lunch.

[dominotw]

where did it come out of all of sudden. they must have a killer sales dept

[Terretta]

Because Greenhouse

[Ben-G]

Benji Co-Founder & CEO here. Curious which areas of the product you've touched on that you're disappointed with? We have ample things we want to improve - but the reason folks are switching to us is that we're well ahead of competition on most dimensions. I also was an EM on the prior generation of products which let us to build Ashby. But it's a surprisingly broad product and so takes a long time to perfect.

[darkwater]

First of all, this is my opinion as a hiring manager and "user" of the system. I'm not in HR so maybe there is some secret sauce there that appeals them - I still haven't discussed with them their rationale.

To answer your question: I mainly used Lever before and it was more or less OK, just like Ashby is OK. So, I'm not saying it's a bad product, it's probably a good product. I just don't see it "so much better" to justify a switch from Lever from my point of view. Both are "good enough" from an hiring manager perspective (or at least, my perspective).