15Five vs Culture Amp

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Score 8.7 out of 10

Based on 11 reviews and ratings

Score 8.8 out of 10

Based on 9 reviews and ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

15Five is well suited for businesses/groups that are transparent, and willing to share information. If an organization was not a place where information is freely shared, it would not be helpful. Although, it could improve the level of transparency, as members of the organization could have space where they feel comfortable to share information. There are several different privacy settings within the each 15Five, so users can choose what they want to share. Also, it's best to make sure you/your organization has the time to use 15Five. It can be time-consuming for users, but also for those reviewing employees 15Five. It can be a lot of information to sift through. However, the layout of the software is easy to engage with and digest, which is helpful! Additionally, it's important to share with the team how 15Five works, and why it's being utilized. Depending on the questions that are set up within the software, it would seem a bit invasive to some. However, if a clear expectation is set prior to use 15Five, this may not be an issue.

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Erin Holm

Recruitment Coordinator

Influence & Co.Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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Great partner for administering our annual engagement survey. You can set up automated reminders for users who have not filled out the survey over a period of time. They also offer a lot of benchmark data and resources to really understand what your organization's results mean and how to go about picking the most critical pieces of information that need attention and can have the greatest impact on the organization. If you choose not to use their survey templates or add your own questions to a survey, you may not be able to get any external benchmark data, as it all depends on how relevant your own questions are to the questions used by others in their shared templates.

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Verified User

Manager in Human Resources

Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

15Five

9.1

Culture Amp

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Corporate goal setting

8.7

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Subordinate goal setting

8.4

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Individual goal setting

9.0

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Line-of sight-visibility

10.0

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Performance tracking

9.3

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15Five

8.2

Culture Amp

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Performance plans

7.5

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Plan weighting

6.5

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Manager note taking

7.7

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Performance improvement plans

6.5

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Review status tracking

8.4

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Rater nomination workflow

10.0

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Review reminders

10.0

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Workflow restrictions

7.0

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Multiple review frequency

8.4

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Reporting

9.5

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Pros

Flexibility to set your questions by company/team/individual.
It is a weekly reporting platform that also has the functionality to do end of year reviews. Having continuity makes the end of year process much more streamlined.
Allows individuals to set, report and record progress on weekly goals. These users can then go back later and review these goals and progress throughout the year.

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C-Level Executive in Corporate

Financial Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Provides survey templates with benchmark data from all other users, grouped by industry and company size.
Very user-friendly analytics of the post-survey results- easy to apply filers, graphs, charts, heat maps, great visuals. The data and charts are also very easy to extract in several different formats such as Excel, PDF, and CSV.
Extremely easy to share results with leaders/managers, apply security permissions for only parts of the data if you don't want to share full company results.
They also have a library with very helpful/guided PowerPoint and storytelling templates for preparing a high-level overview of results and presentations.

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Manager in Human Resources

Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

questions can be redundant
Notifications and the reminders seem constant. I'm still getting a "congrats" on my anniversary pop-up every time I log in (from 3 months ago) and I exit out constantly.

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Verified User

Employee in Customer Service

Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees

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They recently launched a text analytics feature but I think it still needs some work. I don't find the attributes of sentiment to comments to make complete sense. Text analytics are also not yet available for export so it makes it very difficult to share with others in presentations and reports outside of the system.
Currently they don't have the ability to set an automated file with and connect with an HRIS (at least not with Ultimate) so every time you want to refresh your users you have to upload a new file feed manually (which is pretty simple, it is just impossible to set the refresh on autopilot).

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Manager in Human Resources

Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Usability

15Five 10.0

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Easy to use UI and fast responsive actions.

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Administrator in Engineering

Biotechnology Company, 51-200 employees

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Support

15Five 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Never had any issues - documentation is top-notch!

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Administrator in Engineering

Biotechnology Company, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Asana isn't necessarily a performance tracking tool but we tried to use it in a way that would work. 15Five is much better since it specializes in this area specifically.

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Verified User

Manager in Customer Service

Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees

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Cheaper
Better analytics
More user-friendly

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Manager in Human Resources

Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

We recently implemented this tool across the company (it was originally only being used by 1 department to test it out) but so far it is helping us track towards our overarching company revenue growth goal.

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Verified User

Manager in Customer Service

Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees

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It has helped us gain insight into some of the reasons for employees leaving the organization, in a way that we have been able to address with putting the right programs in place.
We have been able to identify areas of opportunity that helped us make the business case for launching new learning and development initiatives.

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Manager in Human Resources

Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 1001-5000 employees

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