Used For

• +**Biased performance reviews are creating trust issues** → Built-in calibrations compare ratings across teams so your star developer doesn't get penalized for having a tough manager
• +**You're manually tracking employee feedback in spreadsheets** → Anonymous pulse surveys collect responses automatically, generate reports showing 3.2/5.0 satisfaction scores by department
• +**Exit interviews reveal problems you never knew existed** → Regular engagement surveys catch issues early instead of learning why people quit during their goodbye meeting
• +AI-powered insights spot patterns in survey responses - flags when engineering satisfaction drops 0.8 points over 3 months
• +Performance review templates with editable questions - customize for different roles without starting from scratch

Best For

• >Your performance reviews feel like popularity contests and employees don't trust the process
• >HR is drowning in manual feedback tracking and wants pretty analytics dashboards
• >You're a 50-100 person company that needs anonymous surveys without the enterprise headaches

Not For

• -Teams over 100 employees — data syncing fails at scale and you'll get buried in notification overload
• -Small companies under 50 people — you're paying enterprise prices for surveys you could run in Google Forms
• -Anyone expecting quick support — urgent tickets take up to 3 days to resolve, which is painful when surveys break

Pairs With

• *Slack (where survey reminders get posted and managers complain about notification overload)
• *BambooHR (your main HR system that Culture Amp pulls employee data from)
• *Greenhouse (recruiting tool where you'll want to cross-reference why people are leaving)
• *Workday (enterprise HR suite that Culture Amp integrates with for performance review cycles)
• *Google Workspace (where survey results get exported to Sheets because the built-in reporting isn't deep enough)
• *Tableau (where executives want prettier dashboards than Culture Amp's basic charts provide)

The Catch

• !Survey glitches will log people out mid-response, forcing them to start over (kills response rates)
• !The questions get repetitive fast - employees complain they're answering the same engagement survey every month
• !Managers with large teams get overwhelmed by constant alert notifications with no way to streamline them

Bottom Line

Does employee engagement surveys really well, but once you get past ~100 people it can start to feel more like “big-company overhead” than a smooth, scaled system.