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Uber, Pinterest, Snapchat, and BuzzFeed all share a not-so-secret weapon in the talent wars: Greenhouse. The recruitment optimization SAAS turns hiring into a science, and guides them through where to source job candidates, what to ask interviews, how to score responses. Now Greenhouse has raised a $7.5 million series A led by Social+Capital Partnership to sell the answers to those questions to everyone. A year ago when Greenhouse last raised, it was perfecting its recruitment software. Now CEO and co-founder Daniel Chait tells me its hiring engine is humming. Next it’s turning into a platform of integrated recruiting tools and going into all-out growth mode to add more clients to its roster that includes Airbnb, Mixpanel, Medium, and Oculus.
“When you talk to companies about how they recruit, so much of it is based on folklore and habits,” says Chait. “They’re in the dark about how many candidates they should have, or when they bring candidates in, how should they evaluate them. All that stuff is made up by every company every time.”
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