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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89 Likeliness to Recommend
100 Plan to Renew
86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+92 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
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Respectful
- Enables Productivity
How to read the Emotional Footprint
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While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Dashboards and Reporting
Best-Fit Benefits
Health Savings Account
Integration
Claims Management
Mobile
Self Service Portal
Health Profile
Chatbot
Insurance Management
Vendor Capability Ratings
Business Value Created
Ease of Customization
Ease of Implementation
Breadth of Features
Availability and Quality of Training
Ease of IT Administration
Vendor Support
Ease of Data Integration
Usability and Intuitiveness
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Quality of Features
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Score 8.9
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Score 8.9
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Applicant Tracking Systems - Enterprise
Score 8.8
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Performance Management
Score 8.6
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Talent Management
Score 8.5
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Benefits Administration
Score 8.3
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Workforce Management - Midmarket
Score 8.2
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BambooHR Reviews
Camila M.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Apr 2024
BambooHR is friendly for non IT saavy people
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates BambooHR from other similar products?
Easy to use for all leves of employees
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
How intiuitive it is
What do you dislike most about this product?
The onboarding and offboarding tasks could have more features
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It's one of the best tools out there for HR, consider it before many others and at least try the free version
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
Cons
- Wastes Time
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Luis L.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2024
An awesome tool, but a bit pricey
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates BambooHR from other similar products?
User Friendly, BambooHr is really intuituve for a non tech person is a saoftware that you can use in any device and get the full capabilities.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
BambooHR is highly customizable, allowing organizations to implement specific needs and workflows.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The price due to is not completly described on the BambooHr, it will be great to add more clarity on this.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
BambooHr is a great tool for talent management, set goals, improve productitvity and have a clear view of the timesheets, But first take the advantage of the free trial to be a hundred percent sure that this is what you need.
Pros
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Respectful
Cons
- Wastes Time
- Inhibits Innovation
- Slower Product Innovation
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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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