Culture Amp Reviews & Insights

Score8.8 out of 10

64 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Culture Amp are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Comprehensive Talent Cycle Tool: Users have praised Culture Amp for being a comprehensive tool that covers various aspects of the talent cycle, including 1-on-1 meetings, feedback provision, and customizable surveys. This has been mentioned by multiple reviewers.

User-Friendly Platform: The user-friendly nature of Culture Amp's platform has been consistently highlighted by users. They appreciate how easy it is to build surveys, customize them, and navigate when answering the survey questions. Several reviewers have expressed satisfaction with the platform's user-friendliness.

Unparalleled Support from Culture Amp Team: Reviewers have commended the exceptional support provided by the Culture Amp team. Multiple users have appreciated their live chat support and office hours, which assist with technical issues and provide guidance on survey question phrasing. The expertise of the team in their field has also been highly valued.

Reviews

13 Reviews

Culture Amp has served every need we have had

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 5, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Culture amp allows us to provide employees peace of mind when submitting their feedback on surveys. This data is also very easy to track, and pull analytics from. It is a system designed to be analyzed and to have the data pulled from, so the trends are extremely straightforward to analyze.
The system gives clear information to employees that their data will be protected. The information that we can pull from the system allows us to maintain employee confidentiality while still being able to view the data at every level to analyze the different areas of the business and manager levels.

Pros

Employee confidentiality
Creation of reports
Ability to view data at many levels

Cons

Hierarchy settings can be difficult to navigate
Some reports and filtering can be tough to translate
The system itself needs someone who is familiar with it, it is not as straightforward to someone who is looking at it for the first time.

Likelihood to Recommend

We use Culture amp mainly to run our company wide engagement survey. We were able to utilize Culture Amps pre loaded questions for most of our survey, which allows us to compare our results against the benchmark which is extremely insightful for comparing understanding where you fall within your market.
We also are able to use Culture amp for smaller launches of surveys or very targeted needs for feedback.

Verified User

Employee in Human Resources (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Culture Amp is great for your culture (if you have a culture)

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 15, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Culture Amp for the whole company. On a daily basis we use the skills courses to stay sharp, on a biweekly basis we do 1-on-1 meetings with our managers, once a month we share feedback with our colleagues and bosses, and once every quarter we do introspections through the app to meditate on our progress and our goals, and integrate that with our bosses to align our efforts and achieve more together. It is part of our culture.

Pros

Daily tools to learn new skills
1-on-1 meetings
Providing feedback to colleagues
The daily reminders are excellent

Cons

For some reason, you need to sign in every time you reopen the browser
It would be nice to have a notebook section where I can follow up on the courses I'm undergoing and the tools I'm learning, and to be able to share that progress with colleagues and on social media
If it incorporates all the organization, Culture Amp could offer a culture map so strategic improvements can be made for the organization

Likelihood to Recommend

Culture Amp is excellent to set up your workplace culture rituals through it. It provides structure and accountability.

It is less appropriate for starting new rituals for your company. That is, it is important to remember that the tool is not the culture. You place the culture and cultivate it every day, and Culture Amp allows you to funnel that culture through a structure that strengthens it.

Andrew Nicolás Barajas Mc. Whinney

Product Owner in Product Management at Hint (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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CultureAmp reduced our turnover and improved our retention tremendously

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 13, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Culture Amp across the entire company on a quarterly basis to assess how our culture/happiness is... and then we also use the exit interview tool for any employee who is departing our organization. As a CEO, I use CultureAmp to:

assess if there is a problem on a specific team (maybe with a manager, or morale, or something else)
decide which areas of the company culture to prioritize our focus on improving
understand where we're excelling

Pros

Easy to understand where you're improving (or failing) in culture among your employees, like manager-quality or salaries, etc
Anonymous comments allow you to really get color on problems that employees point out
It's very easy to use -- the admin side AND user side is so user-friendly
benchmarking against other companies of our size is very helpful (and of course, against ourselves)

Cons

I wish the anonymous comments would show which team someone is on, which would add a lot more color

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited:

Companies with more than 15 employees
Companies where someone is really focused on improving culture. You don't want to just see problems and not do anything about it.
Companies where they're transparent about problems and opportunities

Less appropriate:

Companies with 15 or fewer employees

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Corporate (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Culture Amp - great employee engagement tool that's scaled with us!

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 24, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Culture Amp to do our bi-annual Employee Voice Survey. It's is being used company wide, and is a key input for evaluating employee NPS and manager NPS.

Pros

The slack integration is great
Very customizable
Automated send/reminders

Cons

Some quirks in the HRIS integration
We wish we had a better mechanism to track employee NPS
We'd love additional help in self-service reporting

Likelihood to Recommend

Culture Amp is a great tool for employee surveys, and has been able to scale with us for 5+ years. It's customizable and helps provide rich data on how employees are feeling so that we can continue to use that feedback to improving our company culture quarter over quarter.

Verified User

Director in Human Resources (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Unparalleled Customer Service, Great Product

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 18, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Culture Amp is being used across the organization to assist in promoting a continuous feedback culture--gathering data on employee engagement through surveys--and it houses our performance evaluation process. For surveys, the way that Culture Amp collects and reports data is very easy to use and intuitive and removes the need for a data analyst to organize information in spreadsheets. It streamlines performance evaluations a lot as well by keeping peer evaluation nominations within the platform and allowing for an archive of lots of information that's easily visible when writing a biannual performance evaluation.

Pros

The Culture Amp support team is unparalleled. They offer live chat support as well as office hours that you can attend for help on anything from technical issues to the best way to phrase a survey question. They are always willing to help and are experts in their field.
The report pages are very detailed and it's easy to view the data in a lot of different ways. This helps with more insightful analysis.
I love that you can benchmark your survey results to your industry/region; it helps a lot to give context to your results.

Cons

I wish there were a way to include pictures as part of surveys; sometimes the thing we need feedback on is best demonstrated visually.
The interface of defaulting to the engagement home screen and then having to navigate to performance was tricky to train people on; when they had performance evaluations due, they'd log on, see the empty engagement inbox, and assume they had nothing to do rather than navigating separately to the performance inbox.

Likelihood to Recommend

I'd recommend it to smaller companies and remote companies where giving feedback is very important but often more difficult. I think it would be difficult to control administrators/surveys in larger companies where there's less understanding of the departments. I also wouldn't recommend it to larger companies that prefer lots of branding customization since Culture Amp doesn't include a lot of options for that.

Verified User

Project Manager in Human Resources (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Culture Amp is easy to use and gets you quick action items to implement now!

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 4, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Culture Amp for our employee engagement surveys. The tool is owned and managed by our HR department, but surveys are sent across the entire organization. The Culture Amp tool allows us to easily and anonymously survey our entire employee base and make comparisons throughout the year with how engaged our employees are feeling. The tool also permits us to provide direct feedback to managers on how their employees are feeling.

Pros

Ease of use
Easy to administer
Easy to integrate

Cons

Difficult to account for dotted-line reporting
Difficult to track when someone's manager changed
Admin interface is sometimes clunky to use

Likelihood to Recommend

Culture Amp is ideal for asking your employees what is working in your organization as well as where there are areas for improvement. It is very easy to design surveys from scratch or use their built-in templates. We find the industry comparisons tools very valuable to ensure we are providing a culture that employees want to remain at or join.

David Ferrier

Sr LMS Admin in Human Resources at eMoney Advisor (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

HIGHLY recommend! Culture Amp gives a detailed understanding of culture, while being simple and driving action

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 4, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Culture Amp is being used across the whole organization to measure overall staff engagement. We use this survey to get a baseline for our culture, then set culture focus/goals to work towards.

Pros

Customizable questions and templates - everything can be customized to fit my demographics I want to see, and our core values/culture.
People science backed questions in all areas of staff engagement, DEI, team/individual effectiveness, onboarding, exit surveys, etc. Culture Amp is one service that provides so much benefit to all aspects of the talent cycle.
Easy to use platform where I can build surveys, customize them, and so many analytical tools where I can easily see my results, the impact of each question that goes beyond just high/low. Real science that tells me what is most driving/impacting staff engagement and some ideas for how to fix it.

Cons

It does take a lot of time to launch, analyze and act on an engagement survey. The tools are easy to use, and I actually think the time I spend on it is very useful for my company. But if someone doesn't have much time to give to this I can see it being overwhelming.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited - if you are trying to measure staff engagement, and you really are interested in drawing conclusions and making actions based on the survey results.
Less suited - if you don't have a leadership team / HR group that is invested in learning about staff engagement + acting on it, Culture Amp will probably provide you with too much detail/options that you'll be able to do with.

Melissa Kevra

Director of Human Assets, Talent Analytics + Special Projects in Human Resources at OneGoal (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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User-friendly and Insightful

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 27, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the platform for administering surveys across the entire organization. We have ongoing automated surveys and we also run ad-hoc surveys on demand. We use the information to gain insight into employee engagement, turnover, candidate interview experience as well as new hire and onboarding experience. The data helps us identify opportunities for improvement, evaluate new initiatives, as well as collect baseline data prior to launching initiatives, to be used later for comparison and evaluation of progress.

Pros

Provides survey templates with benchmark data from all other users, grouped by industry and company size.
Very user-friendly analytics of the post-survey results- easy to apply filers, graphs, charts, heat maps, great visuals. The data and charts are also very easy to extract in several different formats such as Excel, PDF, and CSV.
Extremely easy to share results with leaders/managers, apply security permissions for only parts of the data if you don't want to share full company results.
They also have a library with very helpful/guided PowerPoint and storytelling templates for preparing a high-level overview of results and presentations.

Cons

They recently launched a text analytics feature but I think it still needs some work. I don't find the attributes of sentiment to comments to make complete sense. Text analytics are also not yet available for export so it makes it very difficult to share with others in presentations and reports outside of the system.
Currently they don't have the ability to set an automated file with and connect with an HRIS (at least not with Ultimate) so every time you want to refresh your users you have to upload a new file feed manually (which is pretty simple, it is just impossible to set the refresh on autopilot).

Likelihood to Recommend

Great partner for administering our annual engagement survey. You can set up automated reminders for users who have not filled out the survey over a period of time. They also offer a lot of benchmark data and resources to really understand what your organization's results mean and how to go about picking the most critical pieces of information that need attention and can have the greatest impact on the organization.

If you choose not to use their survey templates or add your own questions to a survey, you may not be able to get any external benchmark data, as it all depends on how relevant your own questions are to the questions used by others in their shared templates.

Verified User

Manager in Human Resources (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Culture Amp, you're the champ!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 23, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Culture Amp is used to administrator our semi-annual company-wide surveys on how the business is doing and also for other surveys we just started running like one we use for measuring diversity at our company. Culture Amp also provides benchmarks from data they gather from all their users that we can use to measure our own progress.

Pros

The platform for Culture Amp is very user-friendly. It is easy to navigate when answering the survey questions.
Culture Amp gives the ability to compare your business to other benchmarks from outside sources.
Culture Amp can cut data in many different ways based on criteria like department, gender, tenure etc.
Culture Amp guarantees anonymity of its users because it will not cut data a certain way if there are less than 5 people in that category. Ex if there are less than 5 females, you cannot cut the data by gender.

Cons

It would be interesting if users could see comments from others on a platform and that admin could give answers to comments and other people could rate the comments so that admin would see if certain feelings were mutual or if just the outliers make comments.
As a user (not an admin) I would like a platform to log-into so I could see my ratings overtime, especially since we often survey on the same questions. It would be nice to see if things were improving in my mind or not.

Likelihood to Recommend

Culture Amp is a great fit for our company. Bigger companies would probably also see results from it because the more users that take the survey then this increases the ability to cut data by various things like, age, gender and tenure. Smaller companies may find it difficult to cut data, but may just want to use the platform to survey without sectioning employees out into groups.

Lisa Shapiro

Payroll Manager in Finance and Accounting at The Motley Fool (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Great for finding a pulse on employee engagement

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 22, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our company uses Culture Amp to help measure engagement and provide feedback for managers. We do a company wide engagement survey every six months and present the findings to our team and discuss actionable items we learned from the survey. Throughout the rest of the year we utilize Culture Amp to run 180 reviews for our managers. We do this on a 6 month cadence as well, the first 180 is peer feedback (leadership) and the second is team feedback.

Pros

I love that the survey is customizable and that additional questions can be added.
A really interesting feature is the benchmarking and the data used is from other companies within the same industry and vertical.
The fact that this is completely anonymous and that our team can feel confident to provide honest and real answers to the survey questions.

Cons

They already have a good assortment of templates to utilize but I would like to see more added on a regular basis.
The system is easy to use, and this does not relate to its functionality, but maybe more interesting design to the pages and experience as a whole.
It would be interesting to have the ability to share the survey results with the team and be able to add feedback comments as well.

Likelihood to Recommend

Culture Amp has been incredibly helpful for digging into our teams engagement levels and figuring out the exact areas of focus for improvement. It was easy to see trends across teams and understand the specific areas that we were doing well and also the areas that needed immediate focus. These surveys have also allowed us to be able to talk to the results and what the company will be doing to work towards the actionable items. It really has helped us become more transparent.

Ariel Lopez

Human Resources Manager in Human Resources at Geek Powered Studios (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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User-friendly and Insightful

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 27, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Provides survey templates with benchmark data from all other users, grouped by industry and company size.
Very user-friendly analytics of the post-survey results- easy to apply filers, graphs, charts, heat maps, great visuals. The data and charts are also very easy to extract in several different formats such as Excel, PDF, and CSV.
Extremely easy to share results with leaders/managers, apply security permissions for only parts of the data if you don't want to share full company results.
They also have a library with very helpful/guided PowerPoint and storytelling templates for preparing a high-level overview of results and presentations.

Cons

They recently launched a text analytics feature but I think it still needs some work. I don't find the attributes of sentiment to comments to make complete sense. Text analytics are also not yet available for export so it makes it very difficult to share with others in presentations and reports outside of the system.
Currently they don't have the ability to set an automated file with and connect with an HRIS (at least not with Ultimate) so every time you want to refresh your users you have to upload a new file feed manually (which is pretty simple, it is just impossible to set the refresh on autopilot).

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Manager in Human Resources (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience