[hazelcough]

Congrats on launching this!

Out of curiosity, where do other popular ATSes fall in terms of email integration? (Jobvite I think is the popular incumbent?)

[nateps]

Email integration is usually done by manually BCCing or sending emails from an email address generated by the system. BCCing is difficult to do consistently, and replies don't get captured automatically. Sending emails from a special address has much lower deliverability and more importantly is awkward for the person receiving it.

We send emails as you over Google OAuth and Gmail SMTP. That way, the email literally comes from you and shows up in your sent folder. The advantage to doing this in a shared system like Lever is that everyone else on your team can see the full history among multiple people.

When you send another email in Gmail or the recipient replies, we use IMAP to listen on threads associated with Lever. That way, we capture emails much more reliably and they don't have to come from strange random email address. It is really cool stuff, and it happens just as fast as Gmail can show an email, because we are acting just like a full email client.

[kevinliang]

Pretty sure nobody actually likes to use jobvite. Feels like it's a tool they have to use and I think Lever is trying to change that feel.