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"It was built mostly for small to medium sized businesses, with a price that ranged from $200 to $400 a month depending on how many G Suite licenses you needed.
by nexuist 7y ago
"It was built mostly for small to medium sized businesses, with a price that ranged from $200 to $400 a month depending on how many G Suite licenses you needed."
Hm. Does that price seem too high? When I think small business I think mom and pop restaurants or utility stores. Would they be willing to pay so much per month just to hire people which they'll inevitably have to pay for anyways? Do small and medium businesses hire at such large rates to justify this expense?
Obviously I'm just armchair generaling here, I'm sure G Suite's sales team crunched the numbers to make sure they made sense. But they don't make sense to me, and I'm wondering if someone can explain why.
- dpandya 7y agoThe target market for Google Hire was probably Lever's (https://www.lever.co https://www.lever.co) customers, i.e. mostly funded startups and other companies hiring white collar employees. For these businesses, $200-400/month for an Applicant Tracking System is pretty inline with market. Lever's pricing is higher as far as I've seen.
- wheelerwj 7y agosmall business is defined as anything up to 500 people. mom and pop, restaurants are in the same group but it covers a pretty big swath.
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- kensai 7y ago500 people is a small business? Wow, definitely this definition is not used in Europe.
- nolok 7y agoMmm it’s not that far in France a TPE is below 10, a PME between 10 and 250, ETI between 250 and 5000 and a GE above 5000. 500 is almost PME which stands for Petites et Moyennes Entreprises, literally small and medium sized business.
- kayoone 7y agothe EU guidelines says <= 250 employees, Germany's KMU is defined as <= 500 employees
- kensai 7y agoWhy the negative points? Exactly in both definitions, the French and the German, the M means MEDIUM. 500 is NOT a SMALL business. It's at least a medium one.
- rswail 7y agoThe generic term in industry is SME, ie Small to Medium Enterprise. Mom and Pop stores often don't even qualify as "Small".
- kayoone 7y agonot sure why you are getting downvoted, the EU guideline recommends to define SMBs as <= 250 people and the German equivalent KMU is defined as <= 500 people
- ryanSrich 7y agoI’ve only ever seen tech companies use it, so assuming that’s the target, the pricing seems reasonable. Actual small businesses — like local shops, handy men, movie theaters, etc. likely still use Craigslist, or something much cheaper like Zip Recruiter.
- netaustin 7y agoMy company (alley.co) is a satisfied Hire customer, and we are 70+ people, all of whom are in professional tech roles. We're definitely still in the SMB category, and since we're a consultancy and have no outside investors, we're likely to remain in that category. We're a remote company, so our signal to noise ratio in applicants is low, and we really need solid filtering tools for the first round of reviews. Hire works really well for us since we're on G Suite for everything else. I'm about as annoyed about this sunset as I was annoyed about the sunset over Google Inbox. Google's commitment to building tools to make digital life easier is really faltering. We used a handful of Hire competitors before settling on Hire... hopefully the year before EOL will be long enough for one of them to emerge as the best alternative for us.