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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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87 Likeliness to Recommend
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99 Plan to Renew
86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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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
- Respectful
- Trustworthy
- Friendly Negotiation
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
Leave Management
Benefits Administration
Workforce Planning
Employee Record
Talent Management
Talent Acquisition
Time and Attendance
Payroll Administration
Reporting and Analytics
Position Management
Performance Management
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Ease of Implementation
Quality of Features
Ease of Data Integration
Breadth of Features
Ease of IT Administration
Business Value Created
Availability and Quality of Training
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Usability and Intuitiveness
Vendor Support
Ease of Customization
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BambooHR Reviews

Evelyn J.
- Role: Human Resources
- Industry: Utilities
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2022
Outstanding fit for any organization
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates BambooHR from other similar products?
BambooHR is an HR platform that assists our expanding company in centralizing, automating, and connecting all of our personnel data in one location. It provides us with a one-stop destination for managing employee data, gathering insightful information, finding, hiring, and onboarding the finest employees, and streamlining payroll, tracking hours, and benefit collection.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It's great to have all employee information in one spot. I also adore being able to run reports, organize performance reviews, and distribute notifications to the entire group. The recruiting and onboarding processes are excellent, and so is the customer support. They have essentially considered everything. If they haven't, they'll always welcome criticism and will put suggestions into practice.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It can be difficult to comprehend how to set up leave management procedures, and I'm never sure I accomplished it correctly. I discovered on January 1st that I hadn't done it correctly, but it was too late and I required to adjustments to everybody's balances. Additionally, only US-based businesses can use payroll and some other tools.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
BambooHR would be perfect if you're looking for a solution that's very organized and simple to use, is uncomplicated in terms of the HRIS, and doesn't require a complicated ATS. I believe BambooHR does a great job handling the HRIS side of things; it has strong reporting, a nice procedure for requesting signatures, good onboarding features, and good time-off monitoring and approval features.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity

Divyansh D.
- Role: Human Resources
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2022
A perfect match for our business
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates BambooHR from other similar products?
I adore how simple it is to utilise Bamboo HR. When we first added Bamboo HR, it was through a company we utilised for HR consultancy, and I didn't really make the most of it. I was amazed at how powerful it was once I started investigating it, and I'm overjoyed with the efficiencies it has brought about for us. The employee satisfaction component is currently being implemented, and we are really enjoying the comments we can
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The technology is incredibly easy to use. People don't need much time to figure out what to do or where to go, even if they have never used BambooHR before. I truly like that a user-friendly design reduces training time or user errors.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The platform's customization process is a little more laborious than I would like. It's not ideal that custom fields need the submission of a support ticket. restrictions on the placement of certain fields. There is undoubtedly opportunity for improvement.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Great software for workforce management
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Effective Service
- Client Friendly Policies
- Fair

Lorenz L.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Oct 2022
Professional recruiter with integration skills
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates BambooHR from other similar products?
BambooHR focuses on recruiting personnel in a quick and easy way, performing data filters and showing vacancies and available applicants, from the start of recruitment to payroll, it shows the applicant's detailed information to make our job a little easier.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Considering that BambooHR is a software designed for small and medium businesses its interface is really well designed, we can customize it to our liking. It helps us that new team members can start with their work and know what is necessary when starting section in the application since in this you will be able to find the information.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Before acquiring the software it was a bit difficult to make price comparisons with other software of the same category as we could not find on the web the prices of BambooHR plans.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
BambooHR has a free trial so you can integrate it into your team and decide for sure whether to purchase the software or not, this is a great advantage for our pockets and we can say that it was an excellent decision to use it, 100% we recommend it.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service