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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
99 Plan to Renew
86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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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
- Respectful
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Friendly Negotiation
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BambooHR Reviews

Yvonne R.
- Role: Human Resources
- Industry: Food and Beverage
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Aug 2023
Optimizing HR Operations on a Global Scale
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates BambooHR from other similar products?
BambooHR remains competitive in the face of shifts by continuously innovating. They regularly update areas such, as compliance, integrations and admin controls. Unlike competitors who prioritize stability over agility BambooHR understands the importance of staying adaptable and up, to date in todays changing business landscape
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
With the help of BambooHR we can leverage analytics and benchmarking data extracted from employee records to enhance aspects such, as organizational charts and learning paths. We gain insights into areas with turnover rates or underrepresented demographics, which guide us in making strategic decisions to foster engagement and cultivate a thriving culture especially as our workforce increasingly embraces remote work. Accessible, to administrators and leaders these data driven best practices empower us to make decisions effortlessly
What do you dislike most about this product?
Setting up workflows, forms and shared templates and gaining approval, from offices requires dedicated attention, effective change management and support from leaders. It's important to recognize that not all remote cultures will readily adopt procedures, which can affect the success of implementation. Companies should invest in communication and comprehensive training for administrators for coordinating changes, across different languages and regions
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Begin with the trial to evaluate how well the integrations work with your payroll, document sharing and other essential systems. This will help guarantee an uninterrupted flow of data
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing

Josefina C.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2025
Extreme ease of use.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates BambooHR from other similar products?
It has tools that solve many of the most common payroll problems. Add to that its extreme ease of use.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Everything is managed with great ease, it offers a quick view of pay stubs, profile/personal information
What do you dislike most about this product?
More Flexible than ever.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Extremely easy to use. It helps solve many of the most common payroll problems. It's not limited to calculating payrolls. It helps all types of businesses with hiring and onboarding new employees. Offer letters can be sent, signed, and all documents can be stored in BambooHR.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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鈥檚 talk BambooHR - the platform that鈥檚 quietly holding together the beautiful chaos that is our HR department. At first glance, it鈥檚 got that spa-day interface: clean, calming, everything where it should be. But under the hood? It鈥檚 surprisingly gutsy. What makes BambooHR punchier than the average HR software is how it blends people ops with personality. It鈥檚
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Now, here鈥檚 something I keep bragging about: the self-serve portal. This thing basically cut my 鈥淐an you send me my pay stub?鈥 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鈥檙e at a mid-sized agency like us where culture and clarity both matter. If you want something that's more 鈥渓et鈥檚 make HR human again鈥 and less 鈥渞obot overlord with 57 tabs,鈥 BambooHR is your people-first toolkit.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing