Pinpoint vs Greenhouse

Pinpoint vs Greenhouse: The Right Fit for Complex Hiring

First, we’d like to acknowledge the team at Greenhouse.

They’ve built a great product that helps loads of businesses—especially those with a focus on outbound recruitment. If you’re here to understand the difference between Pinpoint and Greenhouse, or looking for a Greenhouse Alternative you're in the right place.

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Why Talent Teams Managing Multiple Approaches to Hiring Choose Pinpoint Over Greenhouse

Greenhouse is a well-known name in the ATS space, offering structured hiring workflows and a broad integration marketplace. But if your organization is juggling multiple approaches to hiring—like high-volume frontline roles, executive searches, and region-specific recruitment—you may find Greenhouse’s rigidity and complexity slowing you down.

Pinpoint is built for flexibility. We help recruitment teams manage diverse hiring strategies in one intuitive platform, with the control and customization needed to reduce admin, improve collaboration, and deliver better outcomes.

Greenhouse Pros and Cons

Greenhouse is known for its structured interview kits, scorecards, and workflows that help standardize hiring practices across teams. (Relevance AI)
With over 325 integrations, Greenhouse connects with a wide array of HR tools, enhancing its functionality. (SelectHub)
Greenhouse offers tools aimed at promoting equitable hiring practices, such as anonymized applications and reporting dashboards. (G2)

Steep Learning Curve: Users report that Greenhouse can be complex to set up and navigate, requiring significant time to configure and train teams. (Forbes)
Limited Customization for Complex Hiring: While Greenhouse offers structured workflows, customizing these for different hiring approaches can be challenging, potentially hindering flexibility. (Outsail)
Cost and Transparency: Greenhouse's pricing is not publicly disclosed, and some users find it to be on the higher end, which may not be cost-effective for all organizations. (Forbes)

How Pinpoint Is Different

Pinpoint is designed for organizations managing multiple approaches to hiring—whether that means early career and executive hiring, high-volume and niche roles, or global and local recruitment.

Workflow Flexibility — Run Hiring Your Way

Greenhouse offers structured workflows that work well for standardized hiring processes (Forbes). However, multiple reviews indicate that customizing workflows for different departments or roles is often difficult, requiring workaround solutions or external support (Capterra Review; G2 Review).

Pinpoint, on the other hand, was built for this. We give you:

A visual workflow builder (no developers or third party tools needed)

Custom workflows per role type, team, or region

Granular control over stages, approvals, and automations

Efficient automation reduces manual workload, allowing recruitment teams to focus on strategic tasks and improve time-to-hire and fill.

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Ease of Use Across the Hiring Team — Not Just for Power Users

Greenhouse is praised for powerful functionality, but many users report a steep learning curve, especially for new users or infrequent collaborators like hiring managers (Forbes; G2 Review). Pinpoint offers:

Thoughtful UX for every user type—not just power users

Branded careers sites and candidate portals that feel polished and personal

Hiring managers get the info they need, and nothing they don’t

A user-friendly interface ensures higher adoption rates across teams, leading to more consistent use and better hiring outcomes.

Reporting You Can Customize (Without a BI Team)

Greenhouse offers dashboards and default reports, but customization is limited and many users export data manually or rely on integrations for deeper insights (G2 Review; SelectHub). Pinpoint gives you:

Pinpoint gives you:

Easy-to-edit dashboards

Export options via CSV, FTP, or API

Segmentable data to reflect multiple hiring approaches

Award-winning and highly rated

What switching looks like

You don’t need another clunky rollout. Or another tool your team avoids using.

From day one, you’ll get expert-led implementation, tailored training, and a rollout that works for your team.

We have a track history of migrating customers from Lever to Pinpoint. Your Implementation Manager will support with implementation, data migration, integrations, and training sessions.

After go-live, your named Customer Success Manager helps you keep improving—and when questions pop up, get answers from real people on live chat in minutes.

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