• Culture Amp is science-based and intuitive.
• It provides a streamlined approach to surveying employees and gathering actionable insights.
• It has contributed to an increase in our retention rates.

Our organization chose Culture Amp because we needed a specialized system to help build an engaged workforce. After two years of attempting to create initiatives on our own, we decided to implement Culture Amp.

The platform allows us to focus on employee development and retention more effectively. Since adopting it, we have seen a 12% increase in our retention rate. Culture Amp also helps us design development programs that align with our company culture.

• Culture Amp is somewhat limited in its survey capabilities. For example, anonymous surveys restrict our ability to pinpoint specific areas for improvement.
• Some key survey results lack the level of detail we need for deeper analysis.
• The employee goal development feature does not integrate with our primary HR system.

Few platforms offer a seamless approach to both employee surveys and development. Culture Amp stands out by combining these functions into a single, user-friendly platform.

When evaluating this type of tool, consider your long-term goals and how frequently you will use it. Integration with existing systems is another key factor—ensuring compatibility with your HR and payroll software can prevent operational inefficiencies. It’s also essential to assess whether the platform will provide long-term value rather than just meeting short-term needs.

Culture Amp has introduced new features that make it easier to conduct surveys and support employee development.

Culture Amp is ideal for mid-sized, growing organizations that have established HR processes but want to improve employee engagement and development.

• I love their easy-to-use survey creation tool, it makes customizing the survey extremely easy.
• I love the data visualization, filtering capabilities, and reporting flexibility to really show the data to tell the story.
• I really appreciate their customer support, they truly do go above and beyond.
• I also really love their IO psychology-based recommendations they provide for high-level areas of opportunity to provide direction in making impactful changes within the organization.

We selected CultureAmp because it is a best-in-class software for running employee engagement surveys. Prior to using it, we used Google Surveys for pulse surveys which is pretty limited in functionality. I've used CultureAmp at 2 separate companies and in total I've used it for about 3 years combined. It's one of my favorite HR systems that I like to recommend around engagement metrics tracking. The key benefits it provides are extremely easy-to-use surveys, the ability to create great reports and visualize data, great end-user experience, good customer support, and adaptability to use the survey functionality for different feedback mechanisms. As an HRBP, it's also extremely helpful to talk through engagement surveys with managers in identifying gaps in their team. CultureAmp's IO expertise also includes great recommendations for specific areas of opportunity for your organization which are great.

• One of the things that was difficult was the HRIS integration between Rippling, though that may just be more of an integration issue. Some of the data would transfer over while others wouldn't.
• When making any edits after the survey has gone out to the data sets ( for example, changing the department a person belongs to) you have to contact your account rep to change the data set. It would be nice to be able to do that independently!
• It would be great if you could preview your data sets and how it would look like for your survey without publishing it as active first, that way you're able to more easily make any edits prior to making it active.

Fortunately and unfortunately, I have not used other engagement survey tools. I've used add-on services that generally do pulse surveys like Paylocity or Google Sheets. CultureAmp is definitely the best-in-class system around engagement surveys, and beyond. It's the most comprehensive survey tool that allows you to really get into the depths of the data and recommendations on how to use the data to make impactful decisions to move your organization forward. As an HR professional, it truly is valuable data that no other system has been able to do as well as CultureAmp.

Budget is definitely important to think about. We also used some of the add-on performance management add-on. It's not the cheapest platform and can cost as much as an HRIS sometimes ( but it's extremely worth it).

Additional Add-ons: Depending on already existing systems, some of the add-on functionalities like performance management tracking, OKR tracking, etc. could be redundant. It's important to think about what you want to use CultureAmp for, and what you want to keep within your HRIS.

They have added on additional modules like performance management to address customer needs. It's a great add-on tool and helpful for companies starting out their Performance Management system.

they're great at customer listening, and their customer support is great.

I would say that it's best for companies with over 50+ employees. The earlier the better to really get a good data set going, but 50 + is probably most ideal for the functionalities outside of engagement surveys. I also believe it's for progressive organizations that really care about the culture and employees and take action.

• Culture Amp is easy to set up.
• Culture Amp has an intuitive system.
• Culture Amp supports large organizations seamlessly.

My client purchased Culture Amp after rehauling the employee experience post-covid. I have been using the platform since then.

• Culture Amp has outdated terminology on occasion.
• It can take a lot of time to sort through what surveys are applicable to you.
• Setting up multiple users can take time.

Culture Amp is one of the better HRIS/Employee Feedback tools available. I would recommend it to 90% of their competitors.

Employers should consider the time it takes to properly analyze an effective survey before purchasing Culture Amp. If you are unfamiliar with the 360 process, it can be a learning curve.

Culture Amp has consistently maintained high marks among my clients based on their evolving to users’ needs.

Public-facing, growing organizations (particularly after M&A or high employee turnover).