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

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

88 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+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?

0% Negative
0% Neutral
100% Positive

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Respectful
  • Enables Productivity

Feature Ratings

Average 86

Dashboards and Reporting

90

Best-Fit Benefits

87

Health Savings Account

86

Self Service Portal

86

Mobile

86

Integration

84

Claims Management

84

Health Profile

83

Chatbot

82

Insurance Management

79

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Ease of Customization

85

Business Value Created

84

Ease of Implementation

83

Ease of IT Administration

83

Ease of Data Integration

82

Breadth of Features

81

Vendor Support

81

Usability and Intuitiveness

81

Availability and Quality of Training

80

Quality of Features

79

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

77

BambooHR Reviews

Camilla S.

  • Role: Human Resources
  • Industry: Media
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2025

Light, Fast, and Surprisingly Powerful

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

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

Amir A.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2025

Onboarding and Hiring.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

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

Allan P.

  • Role: Human Resources
  • Industry: Other
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2025

Zen and the Art of BambooHR Maintenance.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

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