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
Greenhouse
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Greenhouse is an ATS for companies of all sizes. Greenhouse's software supports every stage of the hiring process, from sourcing to onboarding, with the goal of empowering companies to hire top talent quickly, consistently and fairly as their business grows.
UKG was too big of a tech stack for us, even UKG Ready was overly complex for what our organizational needs are. We picked BHR based off of user experience, simplicity, and cost. Most other HR softwares are exponentially more costly than BHR & for our organization needs and …
For small business, like myself, BambooHR is enough. When working for more giant corporations, Workday was amazing. However, I cannot compare their customer service. In terms of user experience, BambooHR is definitely better than the others listed.
BambooHR offers flawless perfoming apps for different operating systems and it is recommended to remote and decentralized teams. It has a quote-based pricing scheme which can be tailored by any business to meet their needs no matter the size and even before making the final …
The feature discoverability and scope of use case of certain features was better for Greenhouse and also the reviews from Employees with their past experiences weighted against BambooHR but in favour of Greenhouse.
I've worked with BambooHR's ATS and Greenhouse is hands down far better. BambooHR is bare-bones, and it works. I wouldn't personally recommend upgrading until you need to (Greenhouse is pricey!), but once that need arises Greenhouse is a good next step.
I've actually used Greenhouse in tandem with BambooHR, which turned out to be the ideal setup, in my opinion - these tools work pretty seamlessly together. In terms of ADP and Hibob, I thought Greenhouse was much easier to use, and the overall interface was much more pleasing …
I prefer Greenhouse to Workday's built-in talent tool as Greenhouse is significantly more intuitive and easier to use. Our whole recruiting team prefers Greenhouse.
Greenhouse is better in terms of usability as it user-friendly and easy to navigate around. It has helped streamline the recruitment process which allows automation of job postings to social sites, candidate search.
From the HR team, it has helped them to provide a better …
I prefer Greenhouse to the other products as their suite of services seems to be much larger and more diverse. By using Greenhouse I know that I can use it for the whole process from introduction to hiring whereas in some others I cannot and will need to loop in other products.
Greenhouse has a very reasonable price for various organization sizes. It's intuitive to use and provides decent reporting. It's much better than Success Factors, Lever, or ZipRecruiter. ZipRecruiter is fine for very small businesses..but it doesn't allow organization or …
According to the pricing and on a team review we get to know that the teams are more compatible and find greenhouse more adequate software than any other . Some more modifications like business centric recruitment process must be added to enhance the features , rest the …
Greenhouse is more customizable compared to competitors. I haven't found another ATS that is easy enough for many users, and able to track so many different candidates and processes.
Greenhouse has the best third-party integrations with other systems, which increases our candidate flow and reduces our friction and number of manual steps in our interview process. It has some of the best workflow definitions and interview structuring support with objective …
I think Greenhouse is much stronger than JazzHR. Where Jazz scratches the surface, Greenhouse takes it to the next level. Especially in regards to customizing the platform for whatever your organization needs. I found that Jazz is fine for a small organization but with a larger …
I used Bamboo HR for a short period of time at a previous job but it did not fully integrate with other software they were using. The UI design was not great from what I remember (though it may have been improved since I last used it), but comparing what I worked with back then …
I've used 3 other systems in the past (as well as spreadsheets) and Greenhouse tops them all. I've only been using Greenhouse for 3 months and I've not used every function available, but I can already see a massive difference in the way this works compared to the others. Plus, …
Features
BambooHR
Greenhouse
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
7.9
386 Ratings
4% below category average
Greenhouse
-
Ratings
Employee demographic data
8.3343 Ratings
00 Ratings
Employment history
8.1340 Ratings
00 Ratings
Job profiles and administration
8.1353 Ratings
00 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
7.7318 Ratings
00 Ratings
Organizational charting
7.8363 Ratings
00 Ratings
Organization and location management
8.1340 Ratings
00 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
7.4205 Ratings
00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
7.6
266 Ratings
7% below category average
Greenhouse
-
Ratings
Pay calculation
8.1198 Ratings
00 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors
7.0148 Ratings
00 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
7.4145 Ratings
00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration
7.2206 Ratings
00 Ratings
Direct deposit files
8.3199 Ratings
00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management
7.9216 Ratings
00 Ratings
Reimbursement management
7.6132 Ratings
00 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
8.8
336 Ratings
7% above category average
Greenhouse
-
Ratings
Approval workflow
8.7336 Ratings
00 Ratings
Balance details
8.5322 Ratings
00 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment
9.2129 Ratings
00 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
8.5
373 Ratings
3% above category average
Greenhouse
-
Ratings
View and generate pay and benefit information
8.5258 Ratings
00 Ratings
Update personal information
8.9373 Ratings
00 Ratings
View company policy documentation
8.4323 Ratings
00 Ratings
Employee recognition
7.9242 Ratings
00 Ratings
View job history
8.8336 Ratings
00 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
9.1
74 Ratings
12% above category average
Greenhouse
-
Ratings
Tracking of all physical assets
9.174 Ratings
00 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
7.3
273 Ratings
4% below category average
Greenhouse
-
Ratings
Report builder
7.4267 Ratings
00 Ratings
Pre-built reports
7.5264 Ratings
00 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data
6.9200 Ratings
00 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
8.2
306 Ratings
2% above category average
Greenhouse
-
Ratings
New hire portal
8.4293 Ratings
00 Ratings
Manager tracking tools
7.9265 Ratings
00 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
7.9
225 Ratings
3% below category average
Greenhouse
-
Ratings
Corporate goal setting
7.0167 Ratings
00 Ratings
Individual goal setting
7.9217 Ratings
00 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility
9.169 Ratings
00 Ratings
Performance tracking
7.6214 Ratings
00 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
7.8
243 Ratings
2% below category average
Greenhouse
-
Ratings
Performance plans
7.3230 Ratings
00 Ratings
Performance improvement plans
7.3197 Ratings
00 Ratings
Review status tracking
8.697 Ratings
00 Ratings
Review reminders
8.1101 Ratings
00 Ratings
Multiple review frequency
7.7218 Ratings
00 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
BambooHR
9.1
81 Ratings
14% above category average
Greenhouse
-
Ratings
Create succession plans/pools
8.946 Ratings
00 Ratings
Candidate ranking
9.067 Ratings
00 Ratings
Candidate search
9.068 Ratings
00 Ratings
Candidate development
9.359 Ratings
00 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Pros: You can handle multiple time-off requests from your team members at once. A complete list of directories is available to all the employees of the organization. As a result, communication with other employees is easier. All the important documents and agreements are available in one place. Cons: You need to manually check how many team members are on leave on a given day and whether there are any conflicts.
Well suited for Big organizations where recruitment is a daily task. Understanding of Greenhouse workings is simple and it is not difficult to train people who use it for first time. Greenhouse is less appropriate if you are looking for sharing offer letters or doing employee onboarding. Did not had a great experience in doing that
Greenhouse Security is simple, but not that granular. For example, everytime new recruiter joins, we have to give them access manually one by one. There is no one click or an easy way to auto assign security unlike other systems that we use such as Workday.
Greenhouse reporting is very lacking. Even though we are on the highest tier, we cannot extract data through this delivered feature. For example, scorecard custom questions. We have to do this through SQL.
Greenhouse Audit Log is also lacking. It is not useful at all. We cannot even see what job info changed and who changed it even though we are on the highest tier now.
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.
I often have trouble finding where a setting or task I need should be. It's gotten better since we started using BambooHR®, but it's still hard to find things. Support chat is ALWAYS unavailable when I do have a question, even during their posted business hours.
Greenhouse's user-friendly interface, efficient workflows, and integration capabilities with other HR tools make it a powerful tool for our company, helping us streamline our hiring and onboarding processes. With its customizable workflow and intuitive design, Greenhouse allows us to create a hiring process that suits their specific needs and requirements, without the need for extensive coding or technical expertise. Moreover, Greenhouse's integration capabilities with other HR tools enable us to centralise our hiring and onboarding data, making it easier to access and analyse applicant information, and reducing the risk of data loss or errors.
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.
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.
I think that the Bamboo customer support team is great. I've only had to contact them twice, but both times they were very easy to work with, assisted me quickly, and made sure I fully understood the solution and that it worked the way I needed it to.
I have never needed to call Greenhouse for support. I am not the primary account holder, nor do I use Greenhouse enough to merit calling support. I delegate that responsibility to the Recruiting team. They have never mentioned any experience with Greenhouse technical support, either bad or good. I would assume that they would tell me if the support was poor.
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.
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.
Compared to other software, Bamboo is more modern and intuitive, especially in terms of user experience. But there is other software with more capabilities and features; maybe Bamboo is pretty good for a small- to mid-sized company.
Tools appears very light to use. It does not take forever to load. the interface is very simple but capable, unlike many ATS's. The tools is Simple yet loaded with very useful functionalities that save a lot of time and expedites the processes. For different stakeholders, the tools works accordingly.
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.
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.