Eightfold AI vs. Hire by Google (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Eightfold
Score 6.9 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Eightfold AI delivers the Talent Intelligence Platform, a solution designed to help organizations to retain top performers, upskill and reskill the workforce, recruit top talent efficiently, and reach diversity goals. Eightfold AI's deep learning artificial intelligence platform aims to empower enterprises to turn talent management into a competitive advantage.N/A
Hire by Google (discontinued)
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Hire, by Google, was a recruiting app for G suite customers. The product includes functionality for applicant tracking, candidate relationship management, and candidate sourcing. Google sunsetted the product in late 2020.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Eightfold
Chose Eightfold
Eightfold had
- Integration with our ERP
- Talent rediscovery
Chose Eightfold
Eightfold [AI] does a much better job at matching talent to new positions and provides a match score which the Salesforce program I used at a staffing agency did not do. Eightfold AI doesn't have an applicant tracking system, which I would like to see in the future.
Chose Eightfold
Workday has many more candidates and user capabilities, such as housing all candidate information and utilizing it as a company portal.
Chose Eightfold
Eightfold [AI] is comparable to BullHorn. However, some features are missing. Bullhorn allows me to search the entire candidate pool by using filters to help identify other viable matches. From that screen, I am able to mass mail, create datasheets, and other tools for …
Chose Eightfold
We found that Eightfold [AI] offered greater functionality than other vendors and their partnership with SuccessFactors ensured our ATS integration would go smoothly. Eightfold offers CRM capabilities, AI matching, marketing campaigns, and a careers page landing site. The …
Chose Eightfold
Overall Eightfold AI fulfills all needed requirements for us as a global enterprise with diverse markets. And the most mature and most trusted AI algorithms from all vendors. The continued improvements are very helpful and the integration with the current system helps a lot! …
Chose Eightfold
We elevated both Eightfold and Entelo on the premise of looking into our past applicants/candidates and how they would help us achieve our hiring goals. They both have a great reputation and what they can do to help solve your hiring needs, but we essentially went with …
Hire by Google (discontinued)
Chose Hire by Google (discontinued)
I picked Google Hire after spending about 3 months on Bullhorn. I found Bullhorn to be terrible. It's WAY more customizable and theoretically powerful, but it's also a pain to set up and maintain. Even just getting your job page set up on your own site required tech support. …
Features
Eightfold AIHire by Google (discontinued)
Talent Intelligence
Comparison of Talent Intelligence features of Product A and Product B
Eightfold AI
7.0
Ratings
6% below category average
Hire by Google (discontinued)
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Ratings
Existing Skills Mapping/Lanscaping7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Bias-Mitigating Algorithms7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Diversity Reporting7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
AI-Based Role Definition7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate Modelling7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Talent Rediscovery6.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated Candidate Evaluation/Scoring6.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Internal Mobility Recommendations7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
At-Risk Talent Scoring5.70 Ratings00 Ratings
ATS Integrations6.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Eightfold AI
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Ratings
Hire by Google (discontinued)
8.1
Ratings
1% above category average
Job Requisition Management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Company Website Posting00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting00 Ratings1.00 Ratings
Customized Application Form00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Resume Management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Candidate Search00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Collaboration00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Email Templates00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
LinkedIn Talent Solutions
LinkedIn Talent Solutions
Score 9.4 out of 10
Breezy HR
Breezy HR
Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Indeed Resume
Indeed Resume
Score 9.1 out of 10
Breezy HR
Breezy HR
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
Score 8.4 out of 10
PeopleStrong
PeopleStrong
Score 9.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
7.7
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8.0
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Likelihood to Renew
5.5
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Looking at Eightfold from a holistic approach, it is an essential tool for a fast growing company (ideally Mid-Market to Enterprise) to utilize this technology. By having access and the ability to search for previous applicants or candidates through our pre-existing pool, is a game-changer. As a company continues to grow, one will need to think of different avenues to find your next batch of employees - why not start with a group that has already engaged with your brand in the past.
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Google Hire is very good at doing the basics well. I believe for most internal HR departments at small companies, this is all you need. It also works well for small to medium-sized staffing companies that just want something reliable and easy to use. What Google Hire doesn't do very well is be flexible. They don't have custom options, they don't have a ton of settings, and their development cycle is slow. As a result, it's pretty much what you see is what you get.
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Pros
  • Integration with our ATS (Greenhouse) and other social media outlets (LinkedIn)
  • Cross-functional ability to build drip campaigns and allowing the platform to do a lot of back lifting
  • Accessibility for Hiring Managers to use a portal for existing candidates
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  • Google does search well so when I search through our database for candidates, I'm confident that I'm pulling up all the right people from what we have.
  • They have a modern and nice user interface - this is one of the biggest reasons to use it over other systems, as most ATS' are pretty ancient looking and not very pleasant to use.
  • Their support is very good at answering and addressing questions.
  • Their pricing is incredible. I'm sure at some point it will change, but for small companies paying 100+ per user for other ATS' - it's incredible to pay 100/month for the whole company.
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Cons
  • Reporting- not all accounts are set up to run reports, however, I feel like this should be standard across all users.
  • Integration with other VMS-based systems- right now it only works for 1 type of system, so we are left to manually publish all open roles.
  • Centralized candidate tab, where you can filter and search for candidates based on a variety of filters.
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  • Despite many many months of requests, Google still hasn't implemented ANY custom fields. This makes it tough for an external recruiting firm to track what they want (most importantly: desired salary).
  • The job board integration is not great for external recruiters, mostly at the fault of Indeed. Indeed flagged us as a recruiting firm and so none of our jobs actually go live. While I know this is an Indeed problem (we had the same problem when using Bullhorn), Breezy ATS never has that problem for us so I don't know what they're doing differently.
  • Their development cycles are quite frankly very slow. I've requested some features, and while support is great about telling me it's coming or in the pipeline, I honestly don't really see a difference in the product since we started using it. It's still great to use, and we still love the software, but there haven't been too many visible improvements that make any difference to our work.
  • Being Google, it can sometimes be frustrating that one arm doesn't talk to the other. For example, they announced a Gmail for Works App/Extension integration, but for some reason when they launched it, admins of a domain couldn't install it. Google Hire pointed to the Google for Works team, and it took literally months to fix. Not the end of the world, but just very silly considering they're the same company.
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Likelihood to Renew
It is good but needs improvements.
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Alternatives Considered
We found that Eightfold [AI] offered greater functionality than other vendors and their partnership with SuccessFactors ensured our ATS integration would go smoothly. Eightfold offers CRM capabilities, AI matching, marketing campaigns, and a careers page landing site. The breadth of services offered is what ultimately made the selection an easy one for us.
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I picked Google Hire after spending about 3 months on Bullhorn. I found Bullhorn to be terrible. It's WAY more customizable and theoretically powerful, but it's also a pain to set up and maintain. Even just getting your job page set up on your own site required tech support. Getting it eventually to what you want could be a great benefit, but Google Hire does great right out of the box and is a lot cheaper. Breezy HR is a great system. It's a bit more expensive than Google Hire for multiple job postings, but their system is equally easy to use and straight forward. However, we are all in on Google Products, so it was just a no brainer to go with Hire for a better price and most likely a better search function.
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Return on Investment
  • I believe there will be many positive impacts, but I have only used it for about a week so I don't have any real results to report yet.
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  • Google Hire makes, unfortunately, a very little impact on our ROI, but I think in the ATS world that's a good thing. It simply acts as a record that we can put everything in and easily reference, and the fact that it works overall makes it a positive software product in the long run.
  • While the search works great, I don't know that I've ever specifically found a candidate and placed them due to it. That could be a result of our job reqs though.
  • The biggest most obvious impact is really just the price. We needed a tool that does what Google Hire does, reliably. Most other companies charge at least 150 or so for 2 people, whereas Google Hire is 100/month for many users. It gives us flexibility for the future and helps minimize what could be a big expense. That definitely helps our bottom line.
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