How to get a referral at Harvey
The reliable way into Harvey is an employee referral or a warm introduction through someone who knows you both, and that person turns up only if you go looking, which most applicants never do.
By Jerry Feng, Growth at Happenstance. Updated August 31, 2026.
The short version
The reliable way into a job at Harvey is a referral or a warm introduction from someone on the team, reached through a person you already know. You've probably got that mutual and haven't noticed, whether it's a law school classmate who joined Harvey or a friend from your old firm whose colleague is on the team that's hiring. Finding them is the work, and it's a search over accounts you've already got. Ask the person with the strongest tie for an introduction or a referral, and keep the message short enough that yes is the easy answer.
Why the warm path beats the queue at Harvey
Harvey builds AI tools for law firms and professional services and hires across engineering, product, legal, sales and customer success. A company drawing that much attention gets more applications than its team can read with any care, so the ones that get a genuine look are usually those an employee has already put a name beside. A referral or a warm introduction does that for you, and it does it before anybody opens your resume.
You don't need a close friend on the inside. What you need is someone who can honestly say how they know you, or how they know the person vouching for you. A law school classmate who joined Harvey counts, and so does a friend from your old firm who introduces you to their colleague there. Figuring out who those people are is a question your own accounts can settle.
Finding who you know at Harvey, and who knows them
Your inbox and calendar. Anybody you've written to or sat in a meeting with who now works at Harvey is a direct route, and the relationship is already on file. The hard part is that you can't query your memory for “people who joined Harvey after we lost touch”, so those names never come up on their own.
LinkedIn's mutual connections. Look at the company page or any one profile and you'll see who you both know, which is helpful once you have a specific person to check.
Happenstance. Happenstance goes through every account you connect, Gmail, Outlook, Google Calendar, Google Contacts, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram, and the networks of the friends you've added, then answers in plain English. Ask who you know at Harvey and you'll get the people, how well you know each of them, which account the tie came from, and for anyone a friend knows, the friend who can introduce you. Sidedoor starts at the posting instead: paste the link and it finds who in your network can refer you. Happenstance is free. The free plan is the whole product, with usage limits on chat and web searches beyond your network. Pro raises the limits: unlimited web searches and results, higher chat limits, and CSV export. The whole job-search version, from the first search to the offer, is on Happenstance for job seekers.
The ask
One message, under a hundred words, naming the role and then saying how you know each other and what you'd like them to do. If you're writing to a mutual rather than someone at Harvey, ask for the introduction and include a paragraph they can forward as it stands.
Subject: Referral to Harvey
What Happenstance can see
Email is read as headers only. Message content and attachments never reach our servers. Yes. Your connections are searchable only by you, the friends you accept, and the groups you join, and sharing is always mutual. Your public profile shows a constellation of named people you know by default, which you can turn off anytime. We never share, sell, or use your data to train AI models. Happenstance is SOC 2 certified and DTI Trust Level 2; the full list of what is stored and for how long is on the security page.
Frequently asked questions
Is a referral or a warm introduction better for a job at Harvey?
Both put your application in front of a person rather than a queue, which is the whole advantage. A referral means a Harvey employee submits you through the company's own process; a warm introduction means a mutual vouches for you to someone at Harvey, who may then refer you. Take whichever the person you've reached is comfortable offering.
What if I don't know anyone at Harvey?
You probably know someone who does. Second-degree paths are where most introductions come from, whether that's a law school classmate whose old colleague joined Harvey or a friend from a previous firm whose coworker works there now. Happenstance searches your own accounts and your friends' networks, so asking who you know at Harvey brings back the people one introduction away and the mutual who can make it.
How do I ask someone at Harvey for a referral?
Say which role and link the posting, remind them in one line how you know each other, and tell them what you'd like, whether that's a referral or an introduction to whoever owns the role. Keep it under a hundred words and make declining easy. If you're writing to a mutual rather than a Harvey employee, ask for the introduction and add a paragraph they can forward unchanged.
How does Happenstance find people at Harvey?
Connect the accounts you already use, Gmail, Outlook, Google Calendar, Google Contacts, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram, and ask in plain English who you know at Harvey. Every result shows how well you know the person and which account the tie came from, and results through friends show the mutual who can introduce you. Sidedoor does the same from a job posting you paste in. Happenstance is free, and Pro raises the limits.
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