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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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88 Likeliness to Recommend
100 Plan to Renew
86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+89 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
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Feature Ratings
Dashboards and Reporting
Best-Fit Benefits
Health Savings Account
Self Service Portal
Mobile
Integration
Claims Management
Health Profile
Chatbot
Insurance Management
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of Customization
Business Value Created
Ease of Implementation
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Data Integration
Breadth of Features
Vendor Support
Usability and Intuitiveness
Availability and Quality of Training
Quality of Features
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
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Score 8.8
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Payroll
Score 8.7
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Performance Management
Score 8.4
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Workforce Management - Midmarket
Score 8.4
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Talent Management
Score 8.4
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Benefits Administration
Score 8.2
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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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Allan P.
- Role: Human Resources
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2025
Zen and the Art of BambooHR Maintenance.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates BambooHR from other similar products?
So let’s talk BambooHR - the platform that’s quietly holding together the beautiful chaos that is our HR department. At first glance, it’s got that spa-day interface: clean, calming, everything where it should be. But under the hood? It’s surprisingly gutsy. What makes BambooHR punchier than the average HR software is how it blends people ops with personality. It’s
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Now, here’s something I keep bragging about: the self-serve portal. This thing basically cut my “Can you send me my pay stub?” emails in half. Folks just log in, poke around their own data, time off balances, job history, even documents like NDAs and contracts. And because marketing people are famously allergic to admin work, the interface had to be intuitive. Luckily, it is. Even our most scatterbrained designer figured it out.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I dislike nothing about BambooHR. It just fits, no issues.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Would I recommend it? Yeah , especially if you’re at a mid-sized agency like us where culture and clarity both matter. If you want something that's more “let’s make HR human again” and less “robot overlord with 57 tabs,” BambooHR is your people-first toolkit.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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