Hyper Growth w/ a Focus on Life Balance - Anonymous employee BambooHR Employee Review

5.0
Sep 3, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

I'm glad to work at BambooHR because of the company culture. It's an interesting mix of encouragement that pushes you to be better while also requiring a healthy balance between your work and home life. Their philosophy is that if you stay balanced at home, you will be happier/more productive at work. We have enormous goals, but I'm culturally expected to spend time recharging with my family.

Cons

It's tough! Our team goals get bigger each month and there's not much time to take a breath and appreciate the cool thing we've accomplished before we're off trying to conquer the next mountain. Our whole company has doubled in size in the last 6 months. I worry that new employees will misunderstand the emphasis on work life balance for an "easy" place to work. We need folks joining the team wanting to make a meaningful difference in the world - not because they know they won't have to work 80 hours a week.

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Pros

BambooHR is a great place to work with outstanding people.

Cons

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2.0
Jun 25, 2026
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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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