What do you dislike about Ashby?
Moving to Ashby from Greenhouse cost myself, my team, and my company an exorbitant amount of time and also the cost we spent on the tool and loss of time hiring. We ultimately ended up moving back to Greenhouse. We paid Ashby to deliver on a product and post our jobs and it failed to do what it is supposed to so badly that we needed to move away from it. Luckily, they let us out of our contract.
Mind you Greenhouse is not perfect and we had reasons to want to look elsewhere.
I asked every recruiter on my team individually, “If you had to login right now to Ashby or Greenhouse, which one would you choose?” Each person without hesitation said “Greenhouse” and I knew I had a lot of work ahead of me.
Had the sales person known the answers to the questions that he absolutely should have known after being there for nearly two years, this all could have been avoided. Had he actually understood and properly explained how the licenses worked then that would have told me everything I needed to know and that it was not the right ATS for us.
Oftentimes, I would get the response to questions I asked, “Why is that important?” This is a big red flag and tells me that people that work at Ashby don’t understand what recruiters do, our challenges, and most importantly compliance. As a recruiting tool company that should be widely known and understood.
I would also reach out if something wasn’t working and would be told I did something wrong only to find out it was in fact a bug. This happened several times in the 3 short months we used the tool.
The final straw though was when I went to post a job and noticed I did not get any applicants. When we post roles in India we will get flooded with applicants. I reached out and was told I never connected Indeed which I had and knew was wrong since we had been getting applicants from Indeed before. It turns out that there was a bug that disconnected our job board to Indeed and one other board. I thought it was weird we were getting so few applicants for some roles. I asked when the bug had happened and it was 30 days prior. So our roles were not posted for 30 days. If you had a bug wouldn’t you alert customers to check and make sure that they were not impacted by this bug???
I spent countless hours sharing feedback from our experience on why we were leaving. So many things were missed in the implementation process that could have been caught. I know we were not the first Greenhouse customer to move to Ashby so why would there not be a checklist? We kept finding things as we went and then had to go back to set stuff up so that reporting would work. Why wouldn’t we have done that in the first place?
The time I have spent I have not been able to get to reporting and other things that my boss has asked of me and could have been spent hiring or training my team. This truly negatively impacted myself and my company in hiring.
Had things been properly explained on several different issues, the poor onboarding experience and our jobs being unposted from Indeed (for an entire month!) are what have made me feel that this was the worst decision I have made in my professional career and felt the ongoing pain of that even in migrating back to Greenhouse. This caused major hardship for our business and has put us further behind in hiring and loss of time that we can NEVER get back.
We were really hoping that Ashby was going to be that all-in-one solution that they claim to be but never got past the ATS. The AI and other things don’t matter if your ATS is broken. Ashby made the same mistake most recruiting tools do: 1) they don’t understand recruiters and 2) branch off and build other things without making sure their core product works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.