BambooHR reviews

3.6

67% would recommend to a friend

(774 total reviews)
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Brad Rencher

85% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

BambooHR has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 774 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BambooHR employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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3.0
Mar 11, 2022

Underpaid for Increasing Workload

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Pros

BambooHR was a great place to grow in my career and work with talented and passionate people. The people are what makes BambooHR and the work life balance was great. I genuinely loved working for BambooHR for the first few years I was there. Middle management was supportive and truly cared about your success.

Cons

BambooHR is losing long time employees and having a difficult time backfilling positions due to the lack of competitive pay. While their conservativeness has served them well to get them to where they are now, the penny pinching is what has been their recent downfall and a major point of contention amongst employees. Long time employees asking for market rate pay are labeled as disgruntled and therefore not worth giving a raise when in reality they wouldn't have left or become disgruntled if they had been paid fairly to begin with. The benefits that were once top of the industry are now industry standard but are often sited as the reason for lower wages. Once the company hired the new CEO and focused on revenue growth without taking care of foundational issues the culture shifted significantly and the reasons why I loved working for BambooHR diminished overtime as the weak foundation could no longer support the rapidly growing company.

2.0
Mar 11, 2022

From good to great...and then not so great anymore.

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Pros

Hard working employees and some absolutely wonderful middle management who truly cared about their teams. You will absolutely learn a ton.

Cons

Once covid changed the whole work dynamic Bamboo couldn't hang with the hiring market anymore. The benefits used to be a pro, but now they're used as a facade to gaslight employees. A 2k paid vacation isn't awesome anymore when you're underpaid by as much as 20-30k (no, I'm not joking. That's real.). Phantom Units are used as a carrot to dangle in front of lower to mid level employees who don't realize that those units won't actually be life changing nor worth the stay. Upper management will continually site "market value" for their low wages --- even when you present with the actual data and job offers that prove otherwise. I suppose they'd rather hire their friends than keep talent. Task prioritization was a joke. Employees were constantly stressed and felt behind because leadership was consistently changing their minds while still expecting the world.

2.0
Mar 10, 2022

A great place to start

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Pros

I worked at BambooHR for over 5 years, and in that time I saw a lot of positive changes, mixed in with a lot of gaslighting. There is an expectation to grow from good to great, but don't expect to be compensated for that growth. Bamboo is very open about their financial position, which is wonderful, but it backfires when they claim they don't have the resources to adequately pay their most important resources, their employees. They hype up their benefits, which were novel back in 2016, but are now common place. The $2,000 paid paid vacation is nice, but falls short when you realize you could be making at least 10k more at another company. It's nice that there is a culture of prioritizing taking time off.

Cons

BambooHR is no longer unique. It's a tech company, masquerading as a HR industry leader, while not practicing what they preach. If you've been to Utah County, you know about the veneer over the culture, and the prevalence of yes men. Bamboo is not immune from that. In fact, Bamboo goes out of its way to recruit out of state management that fits into that mold. If you don't fit the Utah County mold, expect a lot of friction.

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