Case Study: BuzzFeed achieves an 86% reduction in interview stages and improved hiring analytics with Greenhouse Software

BuzzFeed chose Greenhouse to help improve hiring performance

BuzzFeed, an international media company of about 1,500 employees, was undergoing rapid growth—hiring 700+ people in a year, opening a West Coast office and adding new departments and roles. That expansion left recruiting overwhelmed and lacking standardized processes and clean data needed to scale hiring, adopt best practices and deliver meaningful KPIs to executives.

Greenhouse provided an on-site consultant and comprehensive performance audit, then implemented standardized pipelines, consolidated rejection reasons, scorecards, email/offer templates, referral drives and candidate surveys while improving reporting. As a result BuzzFeed cut interview stages by 86% (from 42 to 6), improved data quality and KPI reporting, increased cross-company adoption of the process and strengthened hiring credibility with leadership.

BuzzFeed

April Hillard

Talent Acquisition Leader