It's good until it isn't. - Anonymous employee Personio Employee Review

2.0
Dec 22, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Competitive salaries (although they froze pay rises) - Decent benefits (but reducing every year) - Most colleagues are wonderful

Cons

- Company culture has completely changed - Office presence mandated with wi-fi checks to ensure compliance - Frequent layoffs, over 10% of the company let go 3 times in 18 months - Morale is extremely low, people are terrified of losing their jobs - Career progression almost impossible unless you know the right people - Bad performance in the market, product has no unique differentiator - C Suite changes their mind every month or so

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5.0
Oct 14, 2025
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Pros

My coworkers are wonderful, I feel energized coming to work everyday

Cons

The company has had a lot of churn at Director+ levels, not a clear vision across the company

1.0
Oct 30, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Smart collaborative colleagues at the lower IC levels.

Cons

Personio is a dying company. The over-complexity of the company's technical systems is comical. Every attempt to simplify seems to lead to more complexity as things get half migrated and left to rot. Engineering leadership seems clueless and unable to present a clear plan-of-action to get things on track. Principal engineers force engineering time to be spent on silly projects that don't move the needle long-term. There is an overall aversion to taking the time to learn deeply about systems being used. Personio feels like a combination of all of the negatives of both a startup and a mature tech company, with none of the positives. The tech is half assed and duct taped together, but still somehow everything moves at a glacial pace. There is a mass shared delusion at the company that an IPO is in reach. No investor is going to buy this company's junk shares on the open market.

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