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

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 ...

A Wonderful Weight Off My Shoulders

What do you like best? The sales representatives were flexible, considerate/professional, and not pushy in the least. Even when we had to reschedule calls or extend free trials, there was not feeling of guilt or obligation. The implementation process was smooth and incredibly well-structured. The sales representative explained quite clearly how the hand-off would go between them and the implementation Project Manager and there was no time that I felt abandoned of 'left unattended.' Once ...

Great HRIS System-Wish They Had More to Offer

What do you like best? Customization is very easy to manage, workflow and data entry as well. On-Boarding is great also! They have added a lot to their system to make it more user-friendly for both Admin and employee. What do you dislike? Wishing that their benefit piece allowed for their customers to run open enrollment through it. At this point, Bamboo is only offering benefit tracking through Bamboo; which serves our team no purpose since ours is through a third party vendor and ...

Fantastic product!

What do you like best? I'd used Bamboo at a previous company and knew that it was an intuitive system with a broad reach of features. The implementation process was very simple and straightforward and took far less than the 6 weeks quoted. The implementation process is very deadline-oriented which suited me and very well structured. Nothing was too much trouble; the system is very customisable and so any elements that we needed added or removed, no matter how late in the implementation ...

A platform that puts everyone on the same page

What do you like best? BambooHR is intuitive, simple, & very comprehensive! So many needs were met that I didn't even realize could be with this software. Truly impressive and a transforming addition to our work life. What do you dislike? I can't customize dates for trainings and that is frustrating to me. The only dates it will use are the hire dates and those vary for all teammates. I know the goals feature can be used for this but it isn't as useful as I would like. Recommendations ...