BambooHR® vs. ICIMS Hire

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.
$10
per month per user
ICIMS Hire
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
ICIMS Hire is an enterprise applicant tracking system (ATS) that supports core hiring workflows. With comprehensive support for screening, interview management, offer management, and onboarding, it is built on enterprise‑grade technology and designed to support complex, global hiring at scale.N/A
Pricing
BambooHR®ICIMS Hire
Editions & Modules
Core
$10
per month per user
Pro
Contact Sales
per month
Elite
Contact Sales
per month
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BambooHR®ICIMS Hire
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsImplementation pricing is determined on a per-company basis. Starting price (does not include set up fee) - Pricing is determined on a per-company basis, tailored to organization size, configuration, and selected solutions.
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Community Pulse
BambooHR®ICIMS Hire
Considered Both Products
BambooHR®
ICIMS Hire
Chose ICIMS Hire
When we viewed the demonstration, it seemed easier to create job requisitions and manage job questionnaires in iCIMS. We had heard of good reviews from other companies. There were also a few people in the team that had used the system before, at another company, it was a great …
Features
BambooHR®ICIMS Hire
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
7.9
296 Ratings
3% below category average
ICIMS Hire
-
Ratings
Employee demographic data8.3265 Ratings00 Ratings
Employment history8.1266 Ratings00 Ratings
Job profiles and administration8.1268 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.7.7249 Ratings00 Ratings
Organizational charting7.7273 Ratings00 Ratings
Organization and location management8.1262 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)7.4156 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
7.6
205 Ratings
7% below category average
ICIMS Hire
-
Ratings
Pay calculation8.0150 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors7.0110 Ratings00 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment7.4111 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration7.1159 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files8.2148 Ratings00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management7.9166 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management7.5101 Ratings00 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
8.8
256 Ratings
8% above category average
ICIMS Hire
-
Ratings
Approval workflow8.6250 Ratings00 Ratings
Balance details8.5238 Ratings00 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment9.2129 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
8.5
287 Ratings
4% above category average
ICIMS Hire
-
Ratings
View and generate pay and benefit information8.5195 Ratings00 Ratings
Update personal information8.9281 Ratings00 Ratings
View company policy documentation8.4248 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee recognition7.9176 Ratings00 Ratings
View job history8.8262 Ratings00 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
9.1
74 Ratings
13% above category average
ICIMS Hire
-
Ratings
Tracking of all physical assets9.174 Ratings00 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
7.2
232 Ratings
4% below category average
ICIMS Hire
-
Ratings
Report builder7.4224 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-built reports7.5222 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data6.9165 Ratings00 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
8.2
243 Ratings
3% above category average
ICIMS Hire
-
Ratings
New hire portal8.4230 Ratings00 Ratings
Manager tracking tools7.9215 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
7.9
171 Ratings
2% below category average
ICIMS Hire
-
Ratings
Corporate goal setting7.0127 Ratings00 Ratings
Individual goal setting7.9165 Ratings00 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility9.169 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance tracking7.5158 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
7.8
190 Ratings
1% below category average
ICIMS Hire
-
Ratings
Performance plans7.3175 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance improvement plans7.3151 Ratings00 Ratings
Review status tracking8.697 Ratings00 Ratings
Review reminders8.1101 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple review frequency7.7166 Ratings00 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
9.0
81 Ratings
14% above category average
ICIMS Hire
-
Ratings
Create succession plans/pools8.946 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate ranking9.067 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate search9.068 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate development9.359 Ratings00 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR®
7.9
202 Ratings
1% above category average
ICIMS Hire
8.2
133 Ratings
3% above category average
Job Requisition Management7.7155 Ratings8.0130 Ratings
Company Website Posting7.6164 Ratings8.7123 Ratings
Publish to Social Media9.291 Ratings8.8108 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting7.4161 Ratings8.6113 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention7.588 Ratings8.0119 Ratings
Applicant Tracking8.0183 Ratings8.5128 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts8.1193 Ratings8.0114 Ratings
Customized Application Form00 Ratings7.7115 Ratings
Resume Management00 Ratings9.4125 Ratings
Candidate Search00 Ratings8.2127 Ratings
Collaboration00 Ratings7.8116 Ratings
Task Creation and Delegation00 Ratings7.098 Ratings
Email Templates00 Ratings8.3128 Ratings
User Permissions00 Ratings7.8125 Ratings
Reporting00 Ratings7.5127 Ratings
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User Ratings
BambooHR®ICIMS Hire
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(304 ratings)
8.5
(151 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.9
(17 ratings)
9.0
(33 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(231 ratings)
8.7
(72 ratings)
Availability
9.3
(5 ratings)
9.1
(5 ratings)
Performance
8.7
(5 ratings)
8.2
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
8.2
(151 ratings)
6.0
(103 ratings)
Online Training
8.3
(5 ratings)
7.9
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.6
(6 ratings)
6.3
(5 ratings)
Configurability
7.5
(5 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.4
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.6
(2 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.9
(5 ratings)
7.8
(2 ratings)
Professional Services
9.2
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.9
(4 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(4 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
BambooHR®ICIMS Hire
Likelihood to Recommend
BambooHR
The best use of it is for employee tracking and vacation requests. It can also be used for payroll; however, my company uses a separate program for that. The best use for it, in my opinion, is staff performance management. All the notes and documents can be added/attached to the employee. You can click on an employee's profile and see what days they have been off, how close they are to achieving goals, etc.
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ICIMS
When we partnered with ICIMS in 2018, it met our needs. 8 years later, I think ICIMS can offer more. AI needs to be incorporated into its system to better service its customers. The other recommendation is that they should offer training and communicate more often with their clients. Their dashboard should also be improved to make it easier on the eyes.
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Pros
BambooHR
  • Ease of use for established staff and admins, all the way down to brand new hires.
  • Integrations, especially for posting and managing jobs during the hiring process.
  • Making regularly occurring things like meetings and assessments easy to customize and to action easily.
  • Being able to assign out tasks for onboarding and offboarding.
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ICIMS
  • The opt-out message after the 1st text helps weed out the people who are not interested.
  • Having the ability to have templates/answers to frequent questions saved and ready to use makes it easier/faster to talk to multiple people.
  • Being able to schedule text campaigns is amazing. Every Saturday I set up my campaigns for the next week. This gives me more time to focus on other things.
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Cons
BambooHR
  • No file viewer (need to download the attachments).
  • No option to enable notifications if certain people are out (you can just check, but it would be nice to have).
  • No customization of my personal view (f.e., i can't have the PTO page be my default).
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ICIMS
  • It is a little difficult to track internal applicants that are already active with our company.
  • Some of the fields when hiring an employee are a little difficult to change.
  • Not a sure way of identifying "eligible for rehire" within iCIMS for those that re-apply.
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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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ICIMS
We would highly likely renew iCIMS Hire because it consistently delivers strong value across our recruiting process. It streamlines workflows, improves collaboration between teams, and provides reliable reporting and insights. The system is scalable, user-friendly, and continues to evolve with new features, making it a dependable long-term solution for our hiring needs.
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Usability
BambooHR
It is pretty intuitive and easy to use for most functions! This is helped by the clean and simple interface. The drop down filters and prompts are definitely strong points, and could be easily enhanced with more AI/automation features built in in future to make it even more efficient. I also like the playful icons, making it less dull as a HR tool :)
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ICIMS
I would give it a 9.5 rating, if allowed because despite several gaps, the user's (candidate) feedback to us has been consistently within the 9-10 range, in the past year. The tool is clean, branded and efficient for the people we recruit and who apply to our job openings. It serves our needs extremely well and I for one, wouldn't replace it at the moment, given our hiring needs. It does have some reporting misses and the Mobile app is down to a 4 - however, the results we're seeing overshadow its functionality challenges
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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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ICIMS
There is always ample advance notice before the software goes down for maintenance and this is usually done at off-peak hours. As for system failures - I can't think of any that have effected us in over two years od use.
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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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ICIMS
We can think of no dissatisfaction with our daily use of iCims, involving its response time to commands or incompatibility with any other software we presently use.
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Support Rating
BambooHR
Support has always been excellent. I was skeptical about not having a dedicated account manager at first, but my concerns were quickly eased. I love the different options for communication. Being able to chat, send emails or call a representative are great so that my workflow isn't disrupted by having to complete a call. I have never had an issue reaching anyone and the email follow up is great!
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ICIMS
Before pandemic and iCIMS Talent Cloud acquisitions I would give 10 without a doubt. Unfortunately, I see a strong decrease in the support model, which seems to be mainly connected with the fact that acquired companies/tools/features need to be integrated with the platform, and knowledge of newly provided services and tools were not yet incorporated fully into the support.
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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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ICIMS
No answers on this topic
Online Training
BambooHR
Overall this training was great and our implementation specialist was wonderful and very helpful. We felt really prepared once our training was completed, But we could get additional help immediately even when we were live. The continuation Support heros after implementation are wonderful and you can always get a LIVE person each time you call into their office.
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ICIMS
I would say I believe iCims online training is very good. It's informative, visually appealing, and simple in explaining all the different aspects of iCims. I also really like the new candidate onboarding, and all the other training curricula you have up to be able to inform or send out to the candidate. I like you can attach a URL link for videos as well so you can really customize the training. I feel that overall, I would like to see more. Perhaps, more robust options with the training, if that's something iCims is expanding on in the future.
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Implementation Rating
BambooHR
We implemented bambooHR in Fall, 2023 then implemented Payroll 1/1/24. A vital piece of information was not known or missed in that we are exempt from State Unemployment Tax and have a Reimbursement Set-up, so bambooHR did not send Payroll Reports to the State. Those reports need to be sent regardless if we are exempt or not.
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ICIMS
I wasn't involved with the implementation. It was before my time
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Alternatives Considered
BambooHR
BambooHR® was a great fit for our organization of 75-100 people. We became too big for our small custom MS Access system but not big enough for Workday. Lattice was more of an employee engagement and performance management system and didn't have some of the HR management and API integration we wanted. BambooHR® was robust enough to scale with us and provided the features and functionality we needed.
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ICIMS
Fully available automation, lesser bad data quality, more information is gathered at the time of applicant profile creation without having the need to ask for any follow ups or additional notifications. Integrates better with Oracle, Workday and SAP than other similar systems. Service tickets are resolved faster than other vendors we worked with.
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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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ICIMS
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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ICIMS
iCims is currently pretty good and the best TAS for us at our stage of growth - but further improvement and enhancements will only help make it even better.
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Professional Services
BambooHR
VERY professional!
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ICIMS
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
BambooHR
  • HR team members have been saved thousands of hours over the 3.5 years we've had BambooHR®. It saved me personally several hours a day once BambooHR® was set up. Specifically, onboarding, offboarding, and a formal Hiring system are the major time savers.
  • Employee Information is much easier to access and is all centralized. Employees are empowered to update their information when applicable, and we have designed custom access levels for different positions and managers to ensure every individual is seeing the appropriate types of information about employees.
  • We saved significant money by switching from Lattice to BambooHR®'s Performance Management solution. This solution is less advanced, but the simplicity meets our needs perfectly fine, and it even saves time for managers and employees by BambooHR®'s standard questions, carefully designed to get to the heart of performance and improvement.
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ICIMS
  • iCIMS has had a positive impact on our recruitment efficiency and compliance tracking.
  • The improved visibility across requisitions and hiring stages has shortened our time-to-hire by about 20%.
  • Centralized documentation and audit-ready reports have helped ensure adherence to EEO and federal hiring standards.
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ScreenShots

BambooHR® Screenshots

Screenshot of the Job Info tabScreenshot of Onboarding TasksScreenshot of a New Hire PacketScreenshot of an Employee Performance ReportScreenshot of Employee Satisfaction (eNPS®)Screenshot of Open Enrollment

ICIMS Hire Screenshots

Screenshot of The personalized, configurable dashboard built for recruiters. It brings together upcoming interviews, open jobs, offer statuses, and time-to-fill metrics in one easy view.Screenshot of The candidate list used to manage applications in one organized view. It shows all candidates for a job along with key details like application date and status, giving recruiters a quick snapshot of the pipeline.Screenshot of The global profile provides a complete, real-time view of each candidate in one place. Recruiters can quickly access contact details, work history, education, and active applications without navigating multiple screens.Screenshot of The Microsoft Teams integration. Hiring managers can rate candidates, leave comments, and make recommendations without leaving Teams.