Review of BambooHR
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BambooHR is an on-line human resources solution that provides onboarding, payroll, and benefits management. It also offers automated time-off management and employee self-service.
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What is BambooHR?
BambooHR is an online HR system for small and medium-sized businesses. The cloud-based system offers integrated payroll, applicant tracking (ATS), onboarding tools, e-signatures, time-off tracking, and performance management, with reporting and a mobile app for employees. BambooHR simplifies HR data management to help HR teams become more effective, more efficient, and more human.
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BambooHR Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
| Supported Countries | BambooHR supports any country worldwide |
| Supported Languages | English, French, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish |
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BambooHR is an on-line human resources solution that provides onboarding, payroll, and benefits management. It also offers automated time-off management and employee self-service.
BambooHR starts at $250.
Reviewers rate Update personal information highest, with a score of 9.2.
The most common users of BambooHR are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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March 24, 2022
Incredible HR Software
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
This software offers human resources tools that make our work easier and more bearable, so we can focus on another area that needs our presence. It allows us to track, manage data, and employee information, thus providing a complete report to bosses. Employees will be able to enter, make some changes by themselves, from an application that they can have on their mobile. We employees can group them according to their work categories, carry out inventories, information, follow-up of employees and their work, payroll, and signed documents, among other things. It facilitates our communication, maintaining order and efficiency in our company.
- Manage the personal information of employees.
- Easy access for employees, and the digital signature is not complicated at all.
- It's frustrating when the wait for a vacancy disappears and it's a little difficult to see it again later.
January 07, 2022
BambooHR Rocks
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I love BambooHR. Super easy to use, very user-friendly. I experienced no problems with the site. The best UX and UI design I've seen for an HR portal. I really liked how simple the website looked, it made searching things very easy. I also like the functions that are given to users.
- Search
- User Friendly
- UX Design
- Access
- Detailed Information
- In Depth Access
January 07, 2022
BambooHR offers a robust feature set that is easy to navigate and not overly complex.
As a member of the human resources department, I utilize BambooHR to verify job history, department, team, salary history, contact info, and other related items. BambooHR helps me gain better insight into an employee's organizational progression which allows me to better plan & organize for future promotions, merit increases, or market adjustments related to employee compensation.
- Employee Directory
- Time Off Requests
- New Hire Shout Outs
- I really can't think of anything. Functionality and features have all been top-notch in my experience using BambooHR.
January 06, 2022
BambooHR Review
I personally use Bamboo to track all current and former employees; see their locations, job titles, time at FanDuel, level, salary, and who they report to. I also use bamboo to request time off and handle any personal aspects that relate to my position.
- Convenience
- Efficiency
- User Interaction
- Layout
January 06, 2022
Great for HR!
I thought BambooHR was a great application, and it is so easy to use. I thought this site contained a lot of cool features, for example, the welcome section for new hires. This application makes your resources and links simply to find as well! The site itself is appealing and not confusing at all.
- Mapping out the company's organizational chart
- Easy to see information in profile
- Allowing employees to see who is out for the day
- Making the calendar of those who are out a bit easier to read.
- Adding an attendance feature for employees.
- A section that features employees' birthdays.
December 28, 2021
Would not recommend BambooHR
Score 1 out of 10
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Verified User
Our plan was to use BambooHR and Trax payroll to have a single solution for our HR and payroll needs. We were okay until we started to implement their time tracking app and realized that they could not manage some basic payroll functions and no fix was anticipated. Many issues identified in the interim and wrote up several things at their request for them to consider addressing, none of which has been changed. For example, most employee name drop-downs are in first name order. Some are in no intelligible order. Basic, basic stuff. Most recently, about half our employees received half of their vacation accruals for no apparent reason. The "Support Hero" advised that it must have been one of the Admins on our side who adjusted the accrual dates (definitely not the case). Had to go through four people before it was taken seriously and then took two weeks to address, and even then required my reviewing and notifying them of further issues. Just one example.
- Showing accruals (when it isn't messed up) in running total form
- Landing screen is user friendly and visually appealing
- Applicant tracking
- Basic functions of converting time to payroll
- Clocking in and out punches often do not "take"
- Default employee sort should be able to be changed to last name
- Consider not having everyone take their lunch at the same time
- Too little documentation for implementation - told to watch videos
December 20, 2021
BAMBOOHR one user-friendly tool for HR management.
Bamboo HR is a seamless system to compile all employees' information in one place. everything from what they like to where they live. The documents required for their long-term experience in the company. We also keep salary information there and people can go back and track their growth and pay raises. We can manage time off in a fast and straightforward way. We provide unpaid time off options, parental leaves, and more.
- BambooHR supports our Paid Time Off strategy
- BambooHR supports our pay rate records per employee
- Bamboo HR allows us to track Bday and anniversaries
- I think the mobile version can be better
- I think there are many other features to explore in HR that can make BambooHR a 360 platform
- I think they can promote more the features available, unused or new.
December 17, 2021
BambooHR - All in One HR Solution
BambooHR has been a solid blanket HR solution for us. It provides the basics of managing our prospective hires and active employees, but it also goes far beyond that. It stores our HR documentation records, emergency contact information, personnel data, and work histories. It has a thorough system that allows for easy changes to job roles with an extensive history system. It allows us to manage hierarchies in multiple departments very easily. We also use it for managing time-off requests and time balances. It integrates with our scheduling solution, Deputy, behind the scenes in a seamless way thanks to its API features.
- It provides an extensive system for setting up time off accruals and managing their balances.
- It has a powerful system for managing user permissions to allow supervisors access to necessary areas and limit the access of employees.
- It provides a very useful set of auditing tools and reports, both for tracking changes to employee profiles and who made the changes.
- It has a clean UI that makes it easy for less tech-savvy users to interact with their HR data.
- It could use the ability to create default profile settings for new employees to allow them to default to having certain time off and permissions settings.
- The API could use some more work on the time tracking side of things. It is very limited in that area.
- The reporting is not as user-friendly as it could be and can feel tedious for less tech-savvy HR users.
December 13, 2021
World class HRIS for the medium to large enterprise
We used BambooHR as our HRIS. We managed recruitment and hiring, new employee onboarding, existing employee training and development, and facilitated employee leave policies via BambooHR. BambooHR was our one-stop-shop for everything HR-related. All our team managers used it to keep track of their teams and who needed leave when. Our recruitment team used BambooHR exclusively to facilitate hundreds of new hires across multiple departments.
- Creating and launching job adverts in a well designed easy to use job portal.
- Facilitate employee leave policies and approvals.
- Create easy-to-use onboarding and offboarding templates for new and existing employees.
- For a non-US-based company, BambooHR can be on the pricey side billing per user per month.
- We managed to figure out how to set up the various features we wanted within BambooHR and their online help directory was useful but it would've been nice to have more onboarding support from their onboarding team.
December 09, 2021
BambooHR - Does what it promises!
Here at Dashlane, we use BambooHR to store all our employee information and use their organization chart to make it easy to find out who is reporting to who. This information is also imported into Small Improvements, which is our tool that we use to help facilitate our feedback checkpoints during the performance review process. We heavily rely on BambooHR to make it easy to control all this data, from a user's first day until we off-board them from our company.
- Simple UI - Easy for everyone to use and understand, no matter what they are using it for.
- Clear documentation - Their API documentation is easy to read and makes it easy to know what is and isn't achievable.
- Integrations with other products - Being able to automatically sync with Small Improvements makes our lives much easier.
- Lack of features - BambooHR does everything well, but as a user of the platform, it. doesn't do much more than organize our companies directory.
- Not natural to use some features - At Dashlane, we don't have any need to use the Announcements or Approval features of BambooHR. I don't know why exactly, but we use other platforms to handle this for us.
December 02, 2021
BambooHR: Great Onboarding and Recruiting Tool
I really liked BambooHR for the onboarding piece. You could post jobs, select candidates to interview, and hire them all in one system. I also liked that I was able to do all of the onboarding functions in one place and all of their documents were saved in that system.
- Onboarding
- Filing System
- Recruiting
- Integration with ADP WorkforceNow
December 01, 2021
Highly Recommend!
We use BambooHR as our HRIS and ATS. This includes recruitment, onboarding, time-off management, employee files, and off-boarding. We also have it set up with reminders for birthdays, anniversaries, and performance reviews.
- The on-boarding process is streamlined with a great user experience.
- The time off management is quick and easy.
- Files can be added and organized easily.
- There is limited reporting for the ATS.
- There is a performance management module, but it is not very customizable.
- The engagement survey is just the eNPS question. This does not allow us to ask different questions.
November 30, 2021
All the organization that you may need!
BambooHR is the single resource for all things HR - midway reviews, requesting time off (including parental leave, jury duty, sick leave, vacation, etc.). We are able to set goals for ourselves to stay on track as well as see any limitations that an employee may have for specific events such as allergies and flight preferences! It’s the single resource that allows us to have all of this information about an employee in one spot. We remain organized and in “the know”.
- Allows requesting time off in any scenario to be simple.
- Provides employee info such as address/preferences.
- Allows employees to set goals for themselves.
- The Home Screen could be “better”… it feels busy.
November 30, 2021
BambooHR Review
I use BambooHR on a daily basis. It allows me to not only keep track of my personal vacation days but also helps me keep track of my team's scheduled vacations. It makes it very easy to approve requested vacation days. It also creates a nice directory of the entire company.
- Tracking of employee vacation days.
- Tracking of personal vacation days.
- Directory of team members.
- It could be better integrated with other platforms.
- The interviewing process around hiring could be more robust.
November 29, 2021
Great Option for Entry into HRIS
I have used BambooHR for two small businesses (legal services and construction). The first was an existing business that had no electronic HR processes or software and the second was a start-up. BambooHR is used for full employee life-cycle management, time tracking, performance management, applicant tracking, and benefits management.
- BambooHR has a top-notch electronic onboarding process. It is fully customizable and works very well with applicants of all technological capabilities. Onboarding allows you to add every step the new employee and the business partners must complete through timed, dated, notifications, digital documents, e-signatures, and a back-end administrative ability to follow up.
- BambooHR has good applicant tracking system. They currently integrate with indeed and ZipRecruiter. However, it is easy to create links for other platforms with the ability to distinguish where you are getting recruiting traction. In addition the ability to rate, and communicate about an applicant is confidential between the hiring managers and HR. Also, there is an easy way to create a candidate pool of eligible candidates for later passive recruiting, that is called Talent Pools.
- BambooHR has a unique feature called Announcements. This function allows various announcements to go out via email, through the application, or a combination of both to directed target audiences or the entire company.
- BambooHR also sends out announcements (customizable) on every new hire. This allows folks to see who is starting and learn a bit about them before they meet them.
- BambooHR has a great function for tracking time by the task or job. This is great for tracking productivity gaps for administrative positions or job costing for positions that have billable hours.
- BambooHR also has easy to organize digital documents. You can easily upload documents via drop and drag. Documents can be added to folders and then downloaded later if an employee terminates.
- Goal in performance management are very good, they follow the SMART methodology but there is no way to attach them to a performance review. They do allow the employee to adjust using a slide bar and you can attach people to a goal. In addition it notifies the supervisor but you cannot shut off notifications.
- BambooHR really needs to improve their time tracking. Hours need to be shown by weekly total or at least have the option. The employees should have to actually approve their time and then if they need a change go in and approve it again. This would create a better audit trail to print for DOL claims that an employer is messing with a timecard without having to keep separate documentation that a request was being made. In addition, if you pull a payroll report, the totals don't always calculate correctly. They either need to show the rounding or show the full digits.
- The onboarding and offboarding processes need to hold to email until the user finishes customizing the tasks to be sent. When the tasks are all set up ahead and then backed out by person hired, they should not go out until they are finished being adjusted. Currently as soon as you import, it notifies the person assigned to the task.
- Former employees should have access to the system for at least three years. There is no reason we should have to manually give them documents such as pay statements, or W-2s manually.
- BambooHR needs to have better search options, you should be able to search by nickname, maiden name, social security, birthday, etc.
- Recently bambooHR added the ability to organize employee documents by folder, but they took the ability to download documents en mass. They need to add that back. It is a very difficult to download folder by folder.
- BambooHR shows all birthday in a rolling format on the home page. This is great, but they should only show 10-30 days before and after (customer choice). When you have limited employees a birthday can show up months ahead.
- They have a signed documents report to track and remind those who have not yet signed digital documents. However, it would be better if you had an option to notify supervisors when they are dragging their heels. In addition, there needs to be a way to archive the document list when completed and create a new one by date even if you are using the same document. This is an absolute cluttered mess and very messy to track and follow up on. DocuSign does it much better.
- There needs to be a way to pull a payroll report with salaries and standard hours for exempt employees with the hourly employees. Trax is not always a payroll option and you need a way to pull a report looking for variances.
- Performance management is weak. You cannot customize it at all. It only fits the functionality they want you to use.
- Benefits stink if you have more than one option per benefit. They really need to upgrade this function. Report data is garbage.
- The time accruals show rounded totals and allow employees to go negative. Customer service thinks it is bad idea to stop an employee from going negative in their time off. This should be the customer's choice. They refuse to change this function.
November 24, 2021
Easy to use and helpful to manage work life balance
I use BambooHR to keep track of my time off accrued, sick days, holidays, etc --- anything to do with time off from work is kept in here. If I have to take a sick day or submit time off using my PTO, I'm immediately going into BambooHR. I also use it to see which holidays we already have off and are observed, as well as keep track of what I'll accrue upcoming.
- User friendly.
- Details accrued PTO and expectations.
- Lays everything out clearly.
- Auto-calculate future PTO to accrue for the year end.
- Encompass company's PTO roll-over rules and guidelines.
- Link to Gmail calendars.
We use BambooHR in our organization for almost all employee data management such as org structure, compensation and benefits, documents, vacation and leave, etc... We have had the benefit of being able to combine numerous platforms into BambooHR and reduce our tech stack for employee management as it covers all of our organizational needs.
- User-friendly UI for both administrators and users, there's no learning curve, everything is thoughtfully laid out.
- Ease of navigation for new and experienced users alike.
- The mobile app is very clean and easy to use, most of our employees use this to book time off.
- We don't find it to be as customizable as other solutions but it is more robust.
November 24, 2021
BambooHR - Great software, higher priced
BambooHR is a great piece of software for small business needs that allows your team to be agile and adaptable to the ever-changing needs of the business world. There are a lot of very good software companies for Human Resources that exist, but BambooHR has been a great one for our business for the time that we did use it.
- Customization.
- User onboarding.
- Payroll.
- Document storage and asset management.
- Pricing.
- Reporting.
- Dashboards.
November 18, 2021
Bambu keeps everything at hand!
Bamboo is used by the whole organization for Human Resource purposes. It stores all employee information and helps keep track of vacations and other time-off-related information. It is also used to manage digital signatures for important documents that need to be signed. It is also being used to keep track of each employee's development.
- Easy to use interface
- Attractive design and colors
- Useful information at a glimpse
- Add feature to track clock-ins and clock-outs.
- Show when employees are not available due to time -off
- If you miss the notification to sign a document, it is very hard to find it following common sense.
November 06, 2021
Most trusted and efficient tool for HR.
We use BambooHR for Onboarding, adding leaves and review management. As our company is too huge it helps us to keep track of all the employees.
- Adding schedule
- Processing salary
- Adding leaves
- Its interface is bit tricky
- It requires alot to fill in first
- Otherwise its best HR software to use.
July 12, 2021
BambooHR Made Everything Easy!
BambooHR software is one of the best HR management software I've ever used. We used it as a whole team. As it is operated on cloud base program, we can use it in an affordable way. We use it for employee information and personalize the human resource information systems.
- Very much HR friendly software.
- Excellent updated features.
- Time managing.
- Very easy to set up and use.
- Nothing much actually.
- But sometime module asking question is more than three.
- May be large organization performance needed to be more improvised.
June 14, 2021
Flexible, easy to use, yet very useful HR software
BambooHR is being used across the whole company. As a manager of a department with 6 direct reporters and 20 people in general it is an all-in-one place to keep all the information about your team. You can easily look through the Company's org chart, search for people, get some announcements, request a day off, etc. BambooHR helps you with your day-by-day human resources routines.
- Company's org chart
- Who's out calendar
- Keeping your and your team's personal and job information
- Giving and receiving feedbacks
- Requesting VL, SL, day off
- Plain text fields in requests (e.g. compensation request). No lists, bullets, etc.
- Some custom feedback requests for your team
- Anonymous custom feedback requests about myself
June 11, 2021
Great HRIS for Small to Medium Companies
BambooHR has a ton of different features to solve common human resources tasks, like performance reviews and employee onboarding/off boarding. The platform is managed by our People Ops department, and they get by great without technical assistance. Every employee uses BambooHR to book their time off, view the org chart, etc.
- The org chart is excellent, with multiple views and a responsive experience.
- The ability to create alerts/reminders for employees is very powerful and can be used to automate many workflows.
- It's a generally enjoyable web app to use with a clean UI and responsive performance.
- Some edge cases aren't as fleshed out. For example, asset inventory management isn't something BambooHR can really excel at currently.
- Something akin to Google Forms but with the privacy protections of being already in the HRIS would be great for collecting anonymized responses.
June 01, 2021
BambooHR shows a lot of capability as a HHRR system
Thanks to the ergonomics of BambooHR, it is not difficult at all to adapt to the process of creating lists with employee data, to access them easily, thus ensuring fast and more comfortable operations than with average HHRR services. Our management as a human resources department has improved a lot thanks to its implementation. We believe BambooHR has one of the best developed customer support oriented platforms available in general human resources management, with a highly trained team available around the clock to answer our questions about operations using the service. We have found BambooHR to be a very welcoming HR operations-oriented service, with easy-to-define contact integration mechanics to external platforms, and learning to use it does not seem to require any amount of prior experience on our part.
- BambooHR provides very intuitive self-service tools, allowing our employees and applicants to attach all their contact data, or do their own skills analysis, thus saving enough time in the long run to improve the average interview and hiring speed.
- BambooHR is well automated, facilitating our operations when working with the process of registering new applicants from search engines, and thanks to its talent measurement tools, it is possible to calculate early which prospects would be the best.
- BambooHR is an ideal service for the development of reports with group data, since it allows us to include the number of employees added to our staff. Diagrams of different types can be added to these same reports depending on the type of work being carried out.
- The ease of analytics for hiring planning makes it much less complex and professional than other HHRR services, which is useful when working on employee experience reports during the hiring process to ensure that company protocol parameters are being met.
- It's nice that BambooHR can be integrated with social media, as employee interaction reports on Facebook or Instagram can be shared through social media. BambooHR lets us know appropriately when a message arrives on these social networks thanks to its message alarm system.
- In the area of human resources, BambooHR is easily the one with the most options when working with time tracking, where you can make annotations of incidents, and these in turn can be noted in reports that reflect the performance of each worker.
- BambooHR does not have its own internal chat service, which shows several limitations when you need to work with live comments within the platform. In fact, it is very non-interactive, which limits our direct communication methodology.
- BambooHR cannot be integrated with office software that specializes in payroll work, which would be excellent when it comes to letting us manage employee payments, and not leaving us with the need to integrate with payroll services.
- It is a bit difficult to communicate from BambooHR, since the service limits the communication tools of the team by not having chat or instant messaging services without the need to work with an integration that specializes in just that.
May 17, 2021
A simple but effective HR software
As the name suggests, BambooHR is used by the HR organization to automate repeated tasks and processes and also used by each employee for timesheet tracking and accessing compensation and other benefit details. The biggest advantage is that it is designed for helping smaller HR teams to take mundane work off their shoulders so that they can concentrate on more strategic work.
- Presence of mobile apps makes life easier in terms of accessing data on the go.
- Access to employee data can be easily managed and different people can only have access to different levels of employee details.
- It's more like a self-service portal allowing employees to make changes in their records without reaching out to HR teams.
- An option to do certain common tasks like raising a leave request or downloading payslip by just sending an email or a message on platforms like Slack.
- Full functionality available on mobile apps.
- Not developed keeping in mind temporary and contractual employees.