About Recruitee
An in-house ATS built where hiring managers do half the work.
Recruitee is gestart in 2015 in Amsterdam by the Oostdam brothers, Perry and Sander, and built around a clear bet: that an SMB or mid-market company hiring 50 to 500 people a year wants the hiring manager and the interview team in the tool, not just the recruiter. The product grew into one of the recognised European ATS choices for in-house talent acquisition, with thousands of customers across the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France and the wider EU. In 2021 Recruitee was acquired by Tellent, which now bundles it with KiwiHR for HR administration and Javelo for performance, so the same employee record carries from candidate to onboarded colleague to first review.
The data model fits an in-house TA team, not an agency desk. Candidates, jobs, offers, evaluations, sources, departments and hiring teams sit at the centre, with notes, messages and pipeline stages around them. Recruiters live in the candidate and pipeline view, hiring managers and interviewers live in the evaluation view, HR and finance live downstream of offers and start dates. Because hiring teams collaborate inside Recruitee rather than in a separate spreadsheet, the platform also captures who scored which candidate, which interviewer is fast or slow, and how an evaluation reads against the eventual hire-or-no-hire call.
The point of pulling Recruitee into a warehouse is not that the native reporting is short. It is that Recruitee knows who applied, who got hired and who scored them, but it does not know what those hires cost, which marketing channel produced the candidates that survived probation, or how time-to-hire per role family lines up with the open vacancies that finance is paying recruitment-agency fees to fill on the side. Those answers only show up when the candidate, offer and evaluation tables sit next to your accounting ledger, your job-board spend and the HRIS record of who is still on the payroll twelve months later.
