15Five Reviews & Product Details

My experience with 15Five has been disappointing. The platform can be difficult to navigate, and some of its features feel more time-consuming than helpful. The constant check-ins and performance tracking can become repetitive and feel more like micromanagement than genuine employee development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I feel that the system does not always provide meaningful feedback or practical solutions to workplace concerns. Overall, I believe 15Five needs improvements in usability, communication, and effectiveness Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I appreciate having a single, unified platform for all manager engagement. It has served as a reliable hub for 1:1 sessions, weekly check-ins, and performance reviews, keeping everything documented in one place. Recently, I’ve found the objectives feature particularly useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I’m still not entirely convinced by the high five system. While I do participate in giving and receiving them, it can sometimes feel a bit like a popularity contest. I also worry that it primarily caters to certain personality types who crave public validation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that 15Five is relatively simple to get used to, and that everything is in one place. Each week, you can rate how you feel, add more info if you want, rate your team, and include what you’ll be doing next week. At the same time, you’re not locked into a rigid format; it’s flexible. You can make adjustments as things change, and overall the whole process stays straightforward and adaptable. The interface is also easy to navigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't believe that there is anything that I do not like at about it. It does what it is meant to do and it's reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What stands out most to me is how seamlessly the platform combines core performance tracking with genuine employee engagement. It doesn’t come across as a top-down, corporate monitoring tool; instead, it supports a continuous feedback loop through simple, manageable weekly check-ins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The platform’s effectiveness depends largely on how consistently and thoughtfully each manager chooses to use it. When a lead treats it as a “checkbox” exercise, the feedback loses its value quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The platform is essential to our daily operations because it translates performance data into actionable insights without bogging us down with unnecessary administrative work. I also really value the check-in feature, which allows our team to surface blockers in real time, especially when we’re working across different time zones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My main takeaway is about configuring the reporting dashboards. While the data is high quality, getting the specific visualisation I need for quarterly business reviews takes more clicks than it should. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I still love having ONE platform for engagements with my manager. We use it for 1:1s, weekly check-ins, reviews, and to reference anything my boss may need to remember about who I am and how I work.

What I have begun using since my last review are the objectives. I made my team and myself the owners of the objectives so that we are all reminded every week of our commitments and we have to answer to our progress before we can submit our weekly check-ins. This helps remind us of what our focus should be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I still dislike the concept of high fives. While I give them and get them, I fear that ultimately it is a popularity contest and is something only certain personalities need or want to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The 15Five’s Weekly Check-ins and 1-on-1s provides a more consistent structure for discussing employee strengths, growth areas, and sets a clear path for managers to have the best conversations with employees that ultimately help people be their best-selves. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing significant that is missing at this point and we are able to use it for performance management with no complications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Well as an Event Operations Manager, routine doesn't exist. I'm constantly juggling 3-4 event timelines to move forward with all of the A/V teams, venue managers, catering teams, and my own crew. I love 15Five because, in the middle of all those things that go on it manages to keep the team grounded. Gregory would rather not have to involve the rest of the company in a long, grueling status meeting, so the weekly check-ins give me a clear sense of where the team is. I can follow-up on tasks easily view users who are actively managing vendor contracts and users who are handling on ground logistics. Just prior to a big event things happen minute by minute from changing schedules to updating the list of VIPs to last minute operational requests. 15Five provides me with a clear and realistic view of the workload of my team and its overall morale. I can easily identify when something my logistics coordinator is getting overwhelmed on or if a remote employee is waiting for approval. It just keeps comms organized makes important deadlines obvious to all, and helps to hold the entire team responsible without making them feel “micromanaged.” Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The platform is something I use daily but can be a bit of a hassle in an event. I think the mobile is my biggest problem. As a on-site performer when its time for the programme on a live event day I get by without anything other than my phone. I sometimes have to perform too many clicks to read a detailed update on the team and other times to mark an objective as Done. The mobile app is a bit clunky. It's just not convenient in that more stressful and hectic environment when I want information right off the bat. The second is that the warning system may get to be quite overpowering. My inbox gets all full during event season, when the team of 15-20 people has to constantly update progress, comment and check in. I still have to do a lot of customizing to set my alerts what I want them to be, but that's what I have to do if it's going to be useful when I'm attending a live event. Finally, the weekly check in cycle doesn't seem as flexible as it could be for the events space, because my own workflow is more of weekend events and less of Monday to Friday corporate work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We've had great reviews from staff about the removal of annual 1 on 1 reviews. The consistent check-ins and open door policy have been great for morale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Keeping staff engaged after long periods of weekly check-ins has been challenging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most helpful or best thing about 15Five is that it created continuous feedback and employee recognition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The one thing I don't like about it is that we employees don't know how the company will use the review. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.