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What is BambooHR?
BambooHR is an online HR software that collects and organizes all the information you gather throughout the employee life cycle, and then helps you use it to achieve great things. Whether you are hiring, onboarding, preparing compensation, or building culture, BambooHR gives you the time and insights to focus on your most important asset - your people. BambooHR is a complete HR platform that brings all your employee, payroll, time, and benefit information together in one place, giving you the data accuracy, security, and coordination.
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BambooHR Ratings
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88 Likeliness to Recommend
94 Plan to Renew
83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+93 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love BambooHR?
Pros
- Friendly Negotiation
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
- Transparent
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Payroll
Score 8.9
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Human Capital Management - Midmarket
Score 8.9
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Performance Management
Score 8.6
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Talent Management
Score 8.5
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Workforce Management - Midmarket
Score 8.5
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Benefits Administration
Score 8.3
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Employee Benefits Support
Score 8.1
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BambooHR Reviews
Camilla S.
- Role: Human Resources
- Industry: Media
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Aug 2025
Light, Fast, and Surprisingly Powerful
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates BambooHR from other similar products?
We brought in BambooHR when our team grew past 80 people. What made it shine was how self-service it felt. I wasn’t spending time creating logins or resetting PTO calendars. Everyone from interns to C-suite could just dive in and own their data. It’s especially good for younger, tech-comfy teams that hate traditional HR forms.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The time-off module is gold. Employees see their balances, make requests, and managers approve from Slack. It also automatically tracks anniversaries and birthdays, which became a huge part of our culture recognition.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Performance reviews inside BambooHR are too rigid. We tried it for one cycle but found it couldn’t support hybrid review models or layered feedback. We had to export things out for 360 reviews. Also, once your org structure starts to branch into multi-brand or multi-entity setups, Bamboo starts to feel thin
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Great for agencies in the 50 to 200 headcount range who want speed and simplicity. But if you plan to scale up into layered performance management or succession planning, you’ll hit a ceiling
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Effective Service
- Inspires Innovation
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Amir A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2025
Onboarding and Hiring.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates BambooHR from other similar products?
BambooHR dashboard have various widgets that provides the use with quick access to important features for example pending tasks, timelog,, TImesheets and others. BambooHR Timesheet features is simple and efficient for time management that allows to track time and tasks.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
BambooHR allows you to assign agents to tasks in multiple locations and it also ensures seamless onboarding. BambooHR also offers full control and quick access.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Integrates with other softwares for effective and improved hiring process hence no dislike.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
BambooHR automations reduces on time, common errors and inefficiencies allows organisation to focus on strategic work.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Effective Service
- Respectful
- Client Friendly Policies
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Oluwasegun M.
- Role: Human Resources
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2025
Amazing ATS Software. Highy recommend.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates BambooHR from other similar products?
BambooHR offers a seamless end-to-end process for applicant tracking. Apart from Talent Acquisition, there are multiple features HR leaders and organizations would enjoy from purchasing and leveraging this platform.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
End-to-End Recruitment Process
What do you dislike most about this product?
The fact that there are some programming languages that the software cannot read. So top candidates can be filtered out during the candidate filtering process making HR's lose top candidates that would have been a great fit for the role.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Take your time to explore the product, definitely a great option for organizations looking for a cheap and easy to use ATS
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Caring
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