BambooHR® is an attractive tool for small and mid-size companies
December 22, 2025
BambooHR® is an attractive tool for small and mid-size companies
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with BambooHR®
We use BambooHR® for HR management and performance reviews. It is our primary employee repository tracking employee data, PTO tracking, compensation and payment information, performance assessments including employee feedback. BambooHR® is also a repository for important files that employees need to access regularly and of course, a great reference for other valuable data like org structure, birthdays, employee tenure and other key data for managers.
Pros
- Attractive user interface
- Easy to submit forms
- Good API integration
Cons
- The biggest issue is on performance assessments. We are not able to customize the reminder dates so the automated reminder dates shown to people and on the email reminders is often misaligned with our actual internal deadlines. This causes a lot of confusion each review cycle.
- Also on performance management, there is no way to push feedback to a supervisor for their direct report. The only way is if the manager requests the feedback from you. This limits the opportunity for people to give real time feedback throughout the half.
- I wish we had a way to track notes from employee 1:1s in BambooHR® so when we do our performance reviews we can track. That may be a module we didn't purchase but it would facilitate more continuous and comprehensive evaluation of people at review time.
- We were able to save $16k per year by eliminating our old Performance review system and consolidating into BambooHR®
- Significant improved onboarding experience for new hires
- Improved clarity and tracking of data around comp, PTO, etc for managers
I have not personally used the reporting functions. Our HR Administrators may be using it directly.
- Lattice, Workday Workforce Management and Microsoft Access
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.
Do you think BambooHR® delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with BambooHR®'s feature set?
Yes
Did BambooHR® live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of BambooHR® go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy BambooHR® again?
Yes
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