Underpaid for Increasing Workload - Anonymous employee BambooHR Employee Review

3.0
Mar 11, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

BambooHR was a great place to grow in my career and work with talented and passionate people. The people are what makes BambooHR and the work life balance was great. I genuinely loved working for BambooHR for the first few years I was there. Middle management was supportive and truly cared about your success.

Cons

BambooHR is losing long time employees and having a difficult time backfilling positions due to the lack of competitive pay. While their conservativeness has served them well to get them to where they are now, the penny pinching is what has been their recent downfall and a major point of contention amongst employees. Long time employees asking for market rate pay are labeled as disgruntled and therefore not worth giving a raise when in reality they wouldn't have left or become disgruntled if they had been paid fairly to begin with. The benefits that were once top of the industry are now industry standard but are often sited as the reason for lower wages. Once the company hired the new CEO and focused on revenue growth without taking care of foundational issues the culture shifted significantly and the reasons why I loved working for BambooHR diminished overtime as the weak foundation could no longer support the rapidly growing company.

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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
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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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