BambooHR vs DarwinBox comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

BambooHR
Ranking in Talent Management
11th
Ranking in Cloud HCM
9th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
Benefits Administration (9th)
DarwinBox
Ranking in Talent Management
23rd
Ranking in Cloud HCM
16th
Average Rating
6.4
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
HR Analytics Software (8th), Talent Acquisition (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the Cloud HCM category, the mindshare of BambooHR is 2.3%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of DarwinBox is 2.1%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud HCM
Unique Categories:
Benefits Administration
3.0%
Talent Management
1.7%
HR Analytics Software
2.8%
 

Featured Reviews

Gerald Chioke - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 7, 2023
A decent solution to access staff information that needs to improve its UI
BambooHR is like a company directory. Half of the company has a profile on the solution so you can see information about each staff member. People can request staff and leave, see when each staff member has joined the company, or see who is on leave and when they will return to work. Company-wide…
Ayushee  Tiwari - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 18, 2023
The product's servers, integration capabilities, and user interface needs improvement
DarwinBox is not at all a user-friendly product. DarwinBox is a product that needs to be made more user-friendly. DarwinBox's UI is not at all interactive and resembles some website that is made with HTML code, making it a very boring website. From an improvement perspective, DarwinBox's UI needs to be made better. There is no data integration possible with DarwinBox. DarwinBox is not a cloud-based product, and its servers are very messed up. The aforementioned areas concerning DarwinBox are aspects that I don't like and need to be considered for improvement in the future. In general, DrawinBox's servers, integration capabilities, and user interface should be improved. Every functionality that DarwinBox claims to provide to its users needs improvement.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The HR metrics that this solution provides has been most useful. We also really like the fact that employees have the ability to be self sufficient and manage their own information."
"The scalability of BambooHR is good."
"We use this solution for our end to end HR needs from onboarding and hiring to learning."
"BambooHR is accessible to users who aren't good with technology. If you don't have an IT background, you can easily find information about any employee."
"This is a scalable solution. We have not experienced any issues."
"The solution's technical support is super responsive and helpful. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"Leave management is the most valuable as they all started with leave management and then progressed to performance management. Of course, employee profiles are central to everything. It is also very easy to use. Customers get on board with it very quickly. One of the selling points for BambooHR is that they have a very wide partner network. There are lots of other partners that have integrations with BambooHR. They have an open API. This is one of the things that is driving its growth because lots of people and companies are literally just building integrations of BambooHR to ride the wave. If you have an integration with BambooHR, you get sales. People are more likely to choose your product because they've already chosen BambooHR. That's how it is happening. It is a cloud deployment, so there is only one version. They do the updates every month, and because of this, you are encouraged to send them feedback all the time. You never know. Your feature may be included in the next release."
"The performance goals and personal features of every employee with the dashboard is most valuable."
"The solution that we used previously was very complex. As a result, without referring to the manuals and consulting an expert, it was difficult for a newly hired employee to navigate the platform. However, this is not the case with Darwinbox. It has a very intuitive user interface, and anyone can use it and implement it without having to use a guide or a walk through process. It's very simple."
"The most valuable features of the solution are organogram and position-based mapping."
"In our company, we use DarwinBox to maintain the data of our employees and for recruitment purposes."
 

Cons

"There are some issues with the job tab under my info where you add the salary."
"We cannot add more questions to the assessments if we want to."
"In the BambooHR performance management annual evaluations we have some limits to the questions. We can only add four extra questions, and they already have three basic questions, this is not easy for us. We would like to have more flexibility with the questions."
"BambooHR needs to have more flexibility around performance management."
"It would be good to include more options for approvals and workflows. They are deliberately not the most sophisticated version of anything that they do, but it is like 80/20. They hit the vast majority of all the needs, but I have started to run up against the limits of their functionality. It has forced me to start paying attention to the marketplace or sending feedback to BambooHR. Clients are still happy though. Timesheets is a new area in which they're slowly expanding. It is currently very limited, but it meets the needs of standard nine-to-five salary employees who just want to be able to key in their time, have it approved, and then pushed off to payroll. It does not have any of the bells and whistles that an hourly employee or hourly worker might need. That is one area that is currently limited, but they have integrations with some of the best companies that do that."
"It would be useful to have the possibility to assign a task to the different users within the software."
"I would like to be able to export some documents into PDFs a little easier. Right now, only HR can update the training record and as you scale your company, managing the system can be manual and time consuming."
"If you are dealing with two or more businesses under one company name, it is not possible to transfer employees between companies if they have a separate bamboo set up."
"DarwinBox is not a stable solution...DarwinBox is not a scalable solution."
"Like most software, it has a base version, the vanilla, out-of-the-box version, and customization is required to match it to the unique processes of each company. The Darwinbox team seems to be having difficulty with the customization process. They have to be a little more mature to customize it as per every company's need."
"The solution's API integration with third-party applications should be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We pay a monthly subscription to use the solution. The subscript model is based on how many employees we have active."
"I rate the tool's pricing an eight out of ten."
"Price-wise, the solution is in the middle compared to other tools offering similar functionalities."
"It was definitely cheaper than some of the larger systems."
"Compared with SuccessFactors, there is no major difference in DarwinBox's cost."
"My company makes some yearly payments towards the licensing costs attached to DarwinBox."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Educational Organization
6%
Computer Software Company
23%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What advice do you have for others considering BambooHR?
Organizations of all sizes, especially those that are experiencing rapid growth, want to have a way to effectively manage their HR operations. Our organization feels that BambooHR is an HR manageme...
What do you like most about BambooHR?
The tool's most valuable features are the recruitment module, performance module, and document storage.
What needs improvement with BambooHR?
BambooHR's reporting tools were not the best I've used, but they're good. There are some limitations in terms of customized reports, as opposed to ADP, for example. The only thing that could have b...
What do you like most about DarwinBox?
The most valuable features of the solution are organogram and position-based mapping.
What needs improvement with DarwinBox?
The solution's API integration with third-party applications should be improved. There are some issues when it comes to integrating the solution with the SAP system and banking single channels. Mul...
What is your primary use case for DarwinBox?
We use DarwinBox for payroll and the complete hire-to-fire cycle of employees.
 

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