From good to great...and then not so great anymore. - Anonymous employee BambooHR Employee Review

2.0
Mar 11, 2022
Anonymous employee
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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.

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5.0
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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.

1.0
Jun 18, 2026
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Pros

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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