Below Average Pay for an Average Job - Senior Account Executive BambooHR Employee Review

2.0
May 17, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great People work at BambooHR including some friends that will be considered "life-long". Great Starting point if you're just getting into tech. Do a good job at teaching repeatable sales skills. Good Benefit Coverage

Cons

Monthly Sales Quota equates to so much volatility, stress and unnecessary anxiety. Since moving to a new SaaS company, I have never felt more liberated. VP of Sales has no true insight to company culture within the Sales Department. Managers get promoted and stay there but there's no soft skill development. By nature of having a monthly quota, things can turn cut throat and they seem to throw out performance improvement plans left and right (luckily never had to deal with that). The Success planning for who becomes the next manager is whoever's next on "the list" and never really off of performing indicators, EQ or soft skills. Pretty clique-y ... Product has digressed immensely in the last 5 years. No big advancements and lack of willingness to take on outside funding equates to lagging product innovation. It has taken several years for them to combine both their HRIS and Payroll products. You're selling to SMB which means SMB money. Doesn't help that the company is extremely cheap and conservative. Really not a product meant for companies over 250 employees. The commission and comp structure has changed a lot and is still super wacky within sales.

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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
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Pros

BambooHR is a great place to work with outstanding people.

Cons

BambooHR is focusing heavily on AI, which can come at the expense of jobs.

2.0
Jun 25, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

At the end of my tenure, I really have no pros.

Cons

I'm pretty sure I was "quietly laid off", in the effort of sneaky downsizing without having to actually do formal layoffs. This place was a godsend and a great place to work on my small independent team, and I did great. Then they did massive restructuring, added layers of hierarchy, added process, and basically just starting running a creative team like a line of factory workers. I had a horrible time with my manager on so many different levels, and felt validation when others would reflect the same, but I reflect what everyone else says - narcissistic, micro managing leadership that I now understand play manipulation games. I was put on a performance improvement plan and finally quit due to burnout, stress, and the dissolution of a role and a team that I had from before. They constantly push for solutions and deliverables, but I never really saw anything I delivered actually get treated and implemented with respect. Company policies and siloed team policies and procedures stymie actual effectiveness, and it seems like the leadership acts as your strict grade school teacher rather than having your back.

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