Companies Using Recruitee

The one corridor worth publishing

Most technology profiles on this site end their migration section with an apology. We look for domains that dropped one product while running a competitor, find a handful or a few thousand, then discover that most of those domains still run both and quietly kill the section. Recruitee is the exception in this batch. 31 domains dropped Recruitee while running SmartRecruiters, and of every domain that has ever carried both signals, only 16.7% still carries both. Our publishing threshold is 40% or below. This one clears it with room to spare.

24 of those 31 moves landed in the last 30 days, which changes how the number should be read. This is not settled history reported late. It is something happening now, on a small base, and a small recent number deserves another look next month rather than a conclusion today.

A 16.7% still-both share is what a real switch looks like. Most of what our raw queries return as switching is two products sitting side by side, and we throw nearly all of it away.

Why hiring software switches when payment software does not

The reason is structural, and worth stating because it explains why this section exists here and almost nowhere else. A company runs one careers page. When it adopts a new applicant tracking system, the new system takes over the URL candidates land on and the old one loses its only public surface. There is no version of that transition where both stay in place for long.

Compare the categories where coexistence is the norm. On our Recharge profile, 84.7% of the domains that ever ran both Recharge and Seal Subscriptions still run both. A merchant can put one subscription app on a product line and leave another running elsewhere. Analytics behaves the same way, because a second tag costs nothing and breaks nothing. Applicant tracking has no such slack, which is why a 31-domain corridor here carries more information than a four-figure overlap in payments.

The practical consequence for anyone selling into this market: a Recruitee domain seen next to a rival's signal is a live situation, because the two rarely sit together for long. In payments the same observation would mean nothing at all.

A European base, and not the usual one

The Netherlands accounts for 32.4% of the companies we could locate and Germany 22.91%, together 55.31% of the located base. Belgium adds 7.42% and France 5.46%. The United States is third at 8.72%, which for software of this size inverts the normal pattern. Nine European countries sit in our top twelve and carry 1,335 companies between them, 79.23% of the located base.

That shape is the product's advantage and its ceiling at once. Recruitee sells where it understands the hiring norms: Dutch and German employment practice, works councils, the two-language careers page. The named list makes it concrete. 12 of the 34 companies below are Dutch, and six of those twelve are care providers: Rivierduinen, Kwintes, GGZ Oost Brabant, Zozijn, Bartimeus and Affidea. Dutch care organisations hire constantly and in volume, and a careers page is the front door of that pipeline. Personio and Teamtailor are the other European systems we profile, and both concentrate the same way around their home markets.

The band that is missing

Put the size distribution next to almost any other self-serve software profile on this site and one band is conspicuously thin. 33.17% of matched Recruitee companies employ 11 to 50 people and 25.54% employ 51 to 200, so 58.71% sit in the middle. The 1-to-10 band is third at 24.74%. On our Recharge profile the same band is 64.44%.

A ten-person company does not need an applicant tracking system. It hires three people a year and runs the process out of a shared inbox. The tool starts paying for itself around the point where hiring becomes a habit rather than an event, and that threshold shows up in our data as the 11-to-50 peak. Above 1,000 employees the base thins fast, to 77 companies, 4.74% of the matched set, which is where the enterprise HR suites take over.

The 1-to-10 band is where most software lives and where applicant tracking does not. Hiring has to become continuous before software for it is worth buying.

Old companies buying new software

40.55% of matched companies were founded in the 2010s, which reads like any modern software base until you look at the other end of the curve. 21.49% were founded before 1990 and 9.27% before 1960. Ballast Nedam dates to 1877, Castolin Eutectic to 1906, Bartimeus to 1915, Keune to 1922, Vion's roots to 1934, Boggi Milano to 1939, Van Mossel to 1949.

Those are not digital-native buyers. They are established European employers who replaced a careers page an agency built for them, and they behave differently from a startup buyer: slower to choose, much slower to leave, and more likely to be won on the candidate experience in their own language than on anything in the API.

What this page measures, and what it does not

Detection here is a careers page. The signal sits on hosts like racingcareers.mclaren.com and www.boulangerie-ange.fr, and on Dutch careers subdomains such as werkenbij.vanmossel.nl and werkenbij.zozijn.nl. Five of the 34 named detections resolve to a careers-specific subdomain and a sixth, werkenbijbartimeus.nl, is a careers site registered as its own domain. So this counts public recruiting surface, not HR seats, spend or hires.

The count also moves for two reasons that have nothing to do with Recruitee's sales team: the domain set we crawl turns over every month as dead sites drop out and newly discovered ones come in, and our detection signals widen over time. 2,010 domains in June, 2,243 in July, 2,252 in August is a trend line, not a same-store comparison. Our records since mid-March also show 275 domains that lost the signal, which is churn observed inside the current window rather than a lifetime total.

What to take from this

If you sell to Recruitee's base, you are selling to a Dutch or German employer with 11 to 200 staff that hires continuously, runs Microsoft 365 more often than Google Workspace (36.52% against 19.94%), and probably keeps a WordPress marketing site beside the careers page (39.63%). If you compete with Recruitee, the SmartRecruiters corridor is the only movement on this page worth acting on, and 24 of its 31 domains moved inside the last month. TechnologyChecker.io will keep watching whether that holds through the next rollup.