Disappointed - Anonymous employee BambooHR Employee Review

2.0
24 Jan 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible schedules can be accommodated. Great culture, but people that truly own it are far and few. The winter season company-wide holiday is the one time that everyone seems to embody the culture and values. Benefit plans very affordable, but changes in 2025 have caused a shift to a new insurance provider that won't cover certain medications.

Cons

The culture /can/ be great, but is either used as toxic positivity or overlooked entirely. In this, I mean that you will be spoken with if you do not have the right attitude, or given a motivational story to think on so you can embrace the culture. Or, when the queues get overloaded, it means getting called out for not being in a phone or chat channel while working on an urgent case. To piggyback off of that, coaches will tell you to not use after-call work, but team leads will encourage you to. It feels like coaches and front-line leads are not on the same page. Employees are encouraged to pass-off work to previous case owners instead of taking over the case when it is difficult or needs further review. In multiple scenarios, cases I hadn't been able to work on due to being out-of-office were redirected back to my queue instead of worked on in a timely manner. Where is the drive to "Do the right thing" or "Lead from where you are"? The queue I worked in was supposed to be split evenly between chats, phones, and email, but the position is definitely 99%phone based unless you have enough phone cases to justify giving you chat time. Lack of support is another con. Most times, questions from leads wouldn't be answered in a timely manner even if on the phone with an escalated client. No support for disabilities until federally responsible to. The handbook guidelines are very vague. Very little transparency all around.

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5.0
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Pros

BambooHR is a great place to work with outstanding people.

Cons

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2.0
25 Jun 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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