BambooHR® vs. Culture Amp

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BambooHR®
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
BambooHR is an cloud-based human resources solution that provides onboarding, payroll, and benefits management. It also offers automated time-off management and employee self-service.
$250
per month
Culture Amp
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Culture Amp is an employee engagement software offering with functionalities such as employee pulse survey, onboarding feedback collection, and analysis of employee feedback.N/A
Pricing
BambooHR®Culture Amp
Editions & Modules
Core
$250
per month
Pro
Contact Sales
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BambooHR®Culture Amp
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
BambooHR®Culture Amp
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
7.8
203 Ratings
1% below category average
Culture Amp
-
Ratings
Employee demographic data8.4180 Ratings00 Ratings
Employment history8.0184 Ratings00 Ratings
Job profiles and administration7.8178 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.7.7170 Ratings00 Ratings
Organizational charting6.8186 Ratings00 Ratings
Organization and location management8.0176 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)7.797 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
7.4
130 Ratings
8% below category average
Culture Amp
-
Ratings
Pay calculation7.990 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors7.568 Ratings00 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment7.263 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration7.299 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files7.994 Ratings00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management8.1103 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management6.557 Ratings00 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
8.7
175 Ratings
8% above category average
Culture Amp
-
Ratings
Approval workflow8.5171 Ratings00 Ratings
Balance details8.8161 Ratings00 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment8.9127 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
8.4
196 Ratings
4% above category average
Culture Amp
-
Ratings
View and generate pay and benefit information8.1123 Ratings00 Ratings
Update personal information9.0194 Ratings00 Ratings
View company policy documentation8.3165 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee recognition7.9120 Ratings00 Ratings
View job history8.5184 Ratings00 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
8.5
73 Ratings
6% above category average
Culture Amp
-
Ratings
Tracking of all physical assets8.573 Ratings00 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
7.2
165 Ratings
4% below category average
Culture Amp
-
Ratings
Report builder7.3159 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-built reports7.4157 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data7.0108 Ratings00 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
8.3
166 Ratings
4% above category average
Culture Amp
-
Ratings
New hire portal8.5160 Ratings00 Ratings
Manager tracking tools8.1147 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
7.8
106 Ratings
2% below category average
Culture Amp
-
Ratings
Corporate goal setting7.373 Ratings00 Ratings
Individual goal setting7.8101 Ratings00 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility8.666 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance tracking7.494 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
7.7
119 Ratings
2% below category average
Culture Amp
-
Ratings
Performance plans7.2107 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance improvement plans7.289 Ratings00 Ratings
Review status tracking8.294 Ratings00 Ratings
Review reminders8.198 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple review frequency7.699 Ratings00 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
8.0
79 Ratings
2% above category average
Culture Amp
-
Ratings
Create succession plans/pools7.245 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate ranking8.465 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate search8.066 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate development8.657 Ratings00 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
8.0
137 Ratings
3% above category average
Culture Amp
-
Ratings
Job Requisition Management7.8103 Ratings00 Ratings
Company Website Posting7.9112 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to Social Media8.889 Ratings00 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting7.8108 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention7.486 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking8.2126 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts8.4128 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
BambooHR®Culture Amp
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(207 ratings)
10.0
(12 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.4
(15 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(134 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.3
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.7
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.5
(107 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.2
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.8
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.6
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.3
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.9
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
9.2
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.9
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BambooHR®Culture Amp
Likelihood to Recommend
BambooHR
BambooHR® is overall a very solid HRIS that provides good people and time management for our organisation. The reporting options are very customisable and allow for the data to be very useful for a number of things and the eNPS data is easy to setup and provides an excellent snapshot of how we are viewed by our employees.
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Culture Amp Pty Ltd
Culture Amp is a great tool for employee surveys, and has been able to scale with us for 5+ years. It's customizable and helps provide rich data on how employees are feeling so that we can continue to use that feedback to improving our company culture quarter over quarter.
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Pros
BambooHR
  • I have contacted Customer Service several times and everyone I have spoken to has been amazing. I always get my questions answered in a friendly, professional and efficient manner.
  • BambooHR is extremely user-friendly and easy to navigate.
  • I love that I can customize certain features according to our company's needs.
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Culture Amp Pty Ltd
  • The Culture Amp support team is unparalleled. They offer live chat support as well as office hours that you can attend for help on anything from technical issues to the best way to phrase a survey question. They are always willing to help and are experts in their field.
  • The report pages are very detailed and it's easy to view the data in a lot of different ways. This helps with more insightful analysis.
  • I love that you can benchmark your survey results to your industry/region; it helps a lot to give context to your results.
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Cons
BambooHR
  • Notices for approving hours don't always coincide with pay periods well.
  • Payroll reports are by pay period without the ability to combine hours, etc. into a monthly report.
  • There is not an easy way to fix payroll errors. Must get it right the first time.
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Culture Amp Pty Ltd
  • 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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Likelihood to Renew
BambooHR
There's nothing wrong with this platform. I would recommend it to any business starting with more than 10 employees. I will continue to use the program for as long as I need to, hoping they continue being tremendous and finding other ways to incorporate more technology.
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Culture Amp Pty Ltd
No answers on this topic
Usability
BambooHR
BambooHR is very intuitive and easy to use. Some of the more advanced features take some research and assistance to implement (e.g. custom PTO tracking or holiday schedules), but there is a lot of flexibility within the stock features. The navigation and over UI are well-organized and easy to follow.
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Culture Amp Pty Ltd
No answers on this topic
Reliability and Availability
BambooHR
Yes, there is a huge team in the back of the online platform or it looks like it because I have never been left without an answer when I have a question or waiting from a response on my chat .... There must be a huge team, this is so great and I always seem to have someone that is very knowledgeable too. So many times in the past I had to leave with customer service that would connect you with someone else because of the expertise, here everyone seems to be some kind of an expert in the HR function.
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Culture Amp Pty Ltd
No answers on this topic
Performance
BambooHR
I love BambooHR. Reports are easy to run and download and it usually covers any types of requests I get from the management team. You get excel or .csv downloads/reports and it is fast and simple, not too crowded so it is easy to read through. We don't integrate the tool yet but again, soon we will. we just did not had the time to utilize it yet but that's the plan.
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Culture Amp Pty Ltd
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
BambooHR
BambooHR support is very responsive, which I appreciate. They really aim to provide the answer on the first attempt, and if they have clarifying questions, they dive right into them to assist and fully come to a conclusion. If there is no solution to your roadblock, they will submit or ask you to submit a product enhancement request for consideration.
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Culture Amp Pty Ltd
No answers on this topic
In-Person Training
BambooHR
I didn't have in-person training besides teaching my managers how to use the program. However, I couldn't omit this question (maybe a system glitch).
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Culture Amp Pty Ltd
No answers on this topic
Online Training
BambooHR
As far as I can recall, everything went well with doing it online and got questions answered. Was thankful to work with a dummy file to get used to some practices prior to getting our own domain within bamboo to then place our personnel information in the system, this helped a lot!
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Culture Amp Pty Ltd
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
BambooHR
BambooHR's initial implementation team was amazing. We loved having a dedicated person we could call, email or speak to during the entire process. I feel that's so important when you are new to a software. Our process was time consuming, but well worth the final product.
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Culture Amp Pty Ltd
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
BambooHR
I felt Bamboo HR was what we needed for our company. Other HRIS systems didn't give me the care and dedication I have gotten from Bamboo. It was almost like I was another notch in their belt. Bamboo has always made me feel like I came first...like I was their only customer!
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Culture Amp Pty Ltd
Culture Amp is the first such tool I have used. I find it to be very well rounded and useful, especially since culture is one of the trickiest parts of a business to get a hold of as related to the bottom line. The fact that followup on goals and feedback can be done thanks to the platform is a very strong point.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
BambooHR
Since my organization has dropped with employees, I always find ways to reduce costs. I thought there would be a cheaper option, but I was glad that my package included a lot for the price, and downgrading would cost more. The rep could have let me downgraded and taken me to a higher package. I am thankful that didn't happen.
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Culture Amp Pty Ltd
No answers on this topic
Scalability
BambooHR
There is so much you can do with this platform, it is incredible and so welcoming. We don't utilize it 100% yet just because we are growing and the HR team has not been able to concentrate on other areas offered to us but but we will soon. Which is also why we got the product, specifically because what BambooHR can do to help us meet our growing business needs.
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Culture Amp Pty Ltd
No answers on this topic
Professional Services
BambooHR
VERY professional!
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Culture Amp Pty Ltd
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
BambooHR
  • Gave more time back to HR, Directors, and Managers by providing options for easy reports and a place to have all the information.
  • PTO! This has given so much time back to accounting as they no longer have to manually calculate PTO and it's also allowed our team to feel more comfortable to take time off by having an official way to ask off and see what their balances are.
  • Onboarding and offboarding: this has helped HR with the many many tasks of helping team members come onboard as well as when they leave a company.
  • Professionalism: the ability to create forms and has stepped up our game for new hires and even tracking things we have needed our team to fill out!
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Culture Amp Pty Ltd
  • We use culture amp to measure engagement levels surrounding certain "standard" questions we ask on a recurring basis. this gives us a viable way to measure how we are doing overall in certain areas that are important to us.
  • The Diversity survey helped us pinpoint some areas were we could work on improving. This came out in comments from several users.
  • We have to keep in mind that comments are important, but sometimes it is just one person who is upset about one thing that does not affect anyone else. We must keep that in mind and set those aside. It is easy to get caught up in some of those comments.
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ScreenShots

BambooHR® Screenshots

Screenshot of an employee timesheetScreenshot of the Job Info tabScreenshot of a new hire packetScreenshot of a new hire packet (2)Screenshot of an Employee Performance ReportScreenshot of Employee Satisfaction (eNPS®)