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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
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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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+93 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
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
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
Employee Record
Leave Management
Benefits Administration
Workforce Planning
Time and Attendance
Talent Management
Talent Acquisition
Payroll Administration
Position Management
Performance Management
Interactive Organizational Chart
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of Implementation
Ease of Data Integration
Quality of Features
Breadth of Features
Ease of IT Administration
Business Value Created
Availability and Quality of Training
Vendor Support
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of Customization
Usability and Intuitiveness
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BambooHR Reviews
Rina W.
- Role: Vendor Management
- Industry: Food and Beverage
- Involvement: Vendor Management and Renewal
Submitted Oct 2023
org chart automatic onboarding
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates BambooHR from other similar products?
great user experience
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
automatic on and offboarding
What do you dislike most about this product?
need more features
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
better than manual upkeep
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Respectful
- Altruistic
Kim K.
- Role: Human Resources
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Aug 2025
HR Backbone for a Heavy Industry Workforce
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates BambooHR from other similar products?
BambooHR works for us because it centralizes core HR functions in a single platform. With thousands of employees in multiple states, we need consistent data across recruiting, time-off, and compliance records.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Its onboarding workflows are an absolute beast in the sense that they move new hires from offer acceptance to first-day readiness without manual chasing. For our refinery hires, this has cut onboarding time by almost a week
What do you dislike most about this product?
The reporting templates could better accommodate union-specific metrics, like grievance tracking or apprenticeship ratios. Also, the performance review module feels light compared to what we need for technical roles.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Customize fields early to reflect industry-specific data points, such as certifications and safety clearances. And integrate BambooHR with your payroll system from the start — running parallel systems in energy operations creates headaches quickly
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Effective Service
- Inspires Innovation
- Saves Time
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
