Factorial HR

🎯 Should you use Factorial HR?

Buy if: You run HR for a 50-200 person European company and need time tracking, payroll prep, and hiring in one system under one contract.

Skip if: You recruit at scale in the US or need modern sourcing tools-this is an HR platform with a basic ATS bolted on.

⚡ In practice

• ●Setup: 2-3 weeks if migrating employee records and historical docs
• ●Candidate tracking: Functional boards, basic pipeline, no Chrome extension
• ●Interview scheduling: Calendar sync works, no auto-reminders or panel coordination
• ●Team collaboration: Hiring managers comment in-app, no Slack integration

⚠️ Where it breaks

• ●Resume parsing misses formatting nuance and you spend 10 minutes per profile fixing fields.
• ●No sourcing layer means you paste LinkedIn URLs manually or pay for Gem separately.
• ●Analytics show time-to-fill averages but skip funnel conversion rates and sourcing channel ROI.

💸 Is it worth the money?

Pricing is not published and sales quotes seat licenses per employee, not recruiter. If you have 80 employees and 2 recruiters, you pay for 80 seats to unlock the ATS module. Worth it if you also use their time-off, payroll, and document features-wasteful if you only recruit.

🆚 If not this

• ●Greenhouse -> When you hire 50+ people per year and need proper intake, scorecards, and compliance reports
• ●Ashby -> When your eng team demands API access and you want real pipeline analytics
• ●Personio -> When you are based in Germany and prefer local support with similar HR-plus-ATS bundling

🎯 Final verdict

Buy Factorial if you already need European HR software and can tolerate a basic ATS-skip if recruiting is your core job.