It's the safe option - Software Engineer BambooHR Employee Review

3.0
Aug 16, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

BambooHR is a very safe choice. The company is doing well, outlook is reasonable, things are stable. Benefits are very good, culture is friendly and chill, pay is reasonable. It's a source of a reliable paycheck.

Cons

None of the people I worked with were passionate about the company or the product. Everyone showed up, put in their hours, then went home and checked out. It was just a job for everyone - just a way to get a paycheck. I once had a manager tell me that there wasn't any more work for me to do, so I should just go watch Youtube. At the same time, everything was micromanaged. Every ticket was prepared by a manager, and I couldn't work on anything unless my manager gave me the work. There was no "find the next important problem" or "try and see where you can be valuable." It was just "do what your manager tells you to." I was just a cog in the machine, not expected to care about the product or the big picture, just keep my head down and complete the slow stream of tickets that came my direction. That same manager once told me that he preferred working in an office because it made it easier to watch the team and make sure everyone was still working. The separation between engineering and devops was an issue as well. The engineers are not allowed to touch anything to do with infrastructure. This has a couple negative effects: - The engineers feel no sense of ownership over what they build. If they release something that reduces site performance, that's a devops issue. Not their problem. - The engineers are not empowered to solve problems with infrastructure. I once suggested using AWS Lambda to solve a problem, and the response was "yeah, that would be nice, if we were allowed to touch the infrastructure." BambooHR gets many awards and a lot of recognition for being a very good place to work. In my experience, it's a great place for a certain type of person. If you're looking for somewhere fast-paced, where you can drive business impact, really take ownership over your work, and find and solve business-critical problems, BambooHR is not the place for you.

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If you’re complacent with being told what to do and are OK with the pay, you will be OK working here

Cons

There might not be enough space for what I have to say. Management is full of narcissist. Little to no accountability or responsibility from management. Management job is supposed to be helping the team and supporting them and learning the job which they extremely lack in. If you are OK with having someone tell you how to do your job that doesn’t know how to do your job then, you’re in luck. When the team was failing to hit quota, their solution was to keep it the same while calling the BDR‘s complacent. Management also failed to recognize that reps were obtaining quota only through going to events. A work colleague of mine gave feedback in a meeting and was later criticized for providing feedback. After that meeting, he was told not to speak up in a meeting like that. Yet they say they welcome feedback. Management finds time to do things that don’t benefit the team or add extra task to their plate. The organization also loves pointless meetings that can be summarized in two short sentences. My last piece is that the team has a mutual feeling about management and suckers up to them because they are playing the . Bamboo fails to recognize their weaknesses and if they managed to succeed, I would be impressed with how it’s been ran.

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