Good software, poor sales experience While looking for HR software I trialled BambooHR having used it as an employee once before. The software itself is good. However, the experience with Sales lost them a customer. BambooHR are the only SaaS platform that refuse to list their prices. The reason for this is clear, they're not competitive and probably have no idea of their pricing structure. I asked numerous times what their pricing was for a certain package with a certain number of employees. They kept refusing to tell me, instead asking me to have a call with someone else. I really hate it when companies hide their pricing. For this reason I went elsewhere.

BambooHR sucks, fix your sales BambooHR maybe a good software, but their SDRs are atrocious. 2 SDRs for BambooHR contacted me, with no prior intimation. They then refused to inform me about pricing except over phone. A 5 minute phone call to tell me about pricing took more than 3 weeks, and I was required to schedule time with an SDR who just wasn't empowered to offer me a quote over email or online. I run a B2B company, and a client should be able to find you when they want. This includes the ability to send proposals offline, when they can be reviewed. For a company that insists on calling you to give a price, primarily implies that 1. They are not transparent and offer a different price to every customer, which is anti-market, or else, 2. Disorganised, where a proposal or RFP requires 2 chaps to come to an outcome or an offer, no sales cadence at all. This is 2019. This sort of customer experience is unimaginative, abhorred, and speaks of a customer culture that is broken. Ben Peterson, your company can do better, maybe take a minute out of planning an exit and explain why pricing is not offered on your site and small customers, that you are purportedly built for, are being treated like 6th graders.

I had to move to a UK company after… I had to move to a UK company after they accidently loaded someone elses data into our live site. Nothing i could do, no one was interested at bamboo and no one was interested outside of bamboo, as they are not an EU company. Nothing I could do, leason learned. Worst part is, we noticed at 8am, but because of the time difference no one was there to support is until around 2pm UK time. We have now moved to a UK supplier whilst the software isnt as nice, at least I feel my data is safer.

Overall Experience Overall, BambooHR has been very helpful for a HRIS tool. However, there is still some manual processes with onboarding, transfers, and off-boarding. It seems that the offboarding tasks do not get triggered within the workflow like the onboarding ones. I also wish there was more integration with other platforms for background checks and benefits administration.

BambooHR is a broad-spectrum HR… BambooHR is a broad-spectrum HR solution: reasonably good at everything but not the greatest for most things. However, it is much better to have an integrated suite than to have multiple very specialized platforms, both from a cost and a usability perspective. All in all, we love the product! Their support is top-notch, as is their product management. Most of the new features are things that make us happy ;)