BambooHR Reviews in June 2026: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

BambooHR & Bamboo Payroll

What do you like best? We went with BambooHR so we could keep all of our payroll, benefits, and employee information in one spot. The UI is good, and for HR purposes it's fine. The applicant tracking system is pretty good as well. What do you dislike? The Payroll system(powered by Execupay is absolutely terrible. BambooHR & Bamboo Payroll don't sync updates properly, and has cost our company tens of thousands of dollars. It's a constant mess, with no end in sight. We are constanlty ...

Streamlining onboarding and offboarding

What do you like best? BambooHR is a beautifully designed platform. Their onboarding and offboarding task lists, combined with their open API has completely changed our employee hiring process. In the digital age it's so important to have a way to communicate across departments when someone is hired or termed, making sure the proper accounts and access levels are set up prior to their start date or shut down upon an employee's departure. Their onboarding and offboarding task lists have ...

Terrible Customer Experience

What do you like best? We chose Bamboo because there seemed to be a lot of functionality in the system. Really liked the option to add photos to employee profiles and the onboarding/offboarding aspects. What do you dislike? We’re still in the implementation process and thus far, the customer experience has been terrible. They have been rude, inflexible, and difficult to work with. In terms of the system, their ATS is quite clunky. There is also no e-signature functionality until ...

A great tool to organize a growing company with limited HR staff

What do you like best? Ease of navigation. Everything is intuitive and as such implementing is easy. What do you dislike? Some more private data can sometimes get displayed on accident when you are just learning your way around. This isn't a big deal but I did notice that a number of people when looking to submit for vacation accidentally would pull up their salary. Which could make for an awkward moment if you have peers trying to help you figure it out standing by. Recommendations ...

Has simplified my life & allowed me to be more strategic

What do you like best? I could probably write a whole book about why I think organizations should be using BambooHR. I am currently a one-woman show at my company and was running most of our processes on dropbox and drive documents. BambooHR has freed up so much of my time, allowing me to be more strategic and take better care of my team. Bamboo makes our company even more organized and improves the hiring to on-boarding experience by 1000%. Let's start with the Applicant Tracking ...

Perfect Fit HRIS - Incredible Value Proposition

What do you like best? Very intuitive and easy to use. Offers an incredible value for the price-point, great HRIS platform for small and mid-size businesses. Customer service is always topnotch, great API, and continually getting updates. What do you dislike? BambooHR has a really great employee-centric philosophy, very admirable. Drawback is that they sometimes push their philosophy on employee engagement into the product which occasionally causes hurdles. Example: We have over 1,000 ...

HR made easy

What do you like best? Simple and intuitive interface - the home page provides most of what you'd need on a quick view basis. Alerts for upcoming events such as employees on vacation, etc. Reporting tool is basic but so far gets me what I need in terms of everyday HR information. What do you dislike? Not much to dislike so far as it seems to do what's in been advertised to do, help us keep track of HR related activity within our organization. What business problems are you solving ...

As a solo HR manager Bamboo has helped me a ton!

What do you like best? It's been great giving up spreadsheets and using Bamboo HR. What I like best is the company directory -it's nice having employee pictures and very convenient to pull up the directory on your cell phone app and call someone directly! The graphical reports are cool but for my 37 employee organization which has no stats uploaded that reflect past turnover and other metrics, they aren't that useful (yet. I'm sure they will be over time. What do you dislike? As ...

Easy to use and convenient HR tool

What do you like best? good looking and easy to use Web interface. Also the User interface is pretty clean, and does not clutter with too many information. Colors and design are simple and of course they can be "themed" with our company colors and logo. It's easy to find information on a colleague, to know in which department he/she works and who is manager and direct reports are. What do you dislike? When seeing a list of direct reports, we need to click on each of them to ...

All in One HR Must Have!

What do you like best? It's a one stop shop for all employee information, it is so organized and simple to use! The reports you can run for ACA reporting, just simply to see how many full time vs part time staff you have is so simple. It allows you to get an idea on your employee demographics and it enables staff to be in control of their information and have more access to what benefits they truly have. It also is so customizable you can add tables to fit your company's needs. I love it ...