Very chill company to work at - Senior Software Engineer Personio Employee Review

Smart collaborative colleagues at the lower IC levels.

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.

Low accountability. Seltzers and coffee at the office.

Uninspiring leadership, corporate bloat, and a culture of inaction and aversion to learning. Product managers and engineering managers micromanaging implementation details. Engineering standards are all over the place. No unified architecture, no cohesive vision. E.g., half of the "principal" engs want microservices, the other half want a monolith. The platform team is abrasive and snarky while lacking real experience in their technology. Infrastructure and tooling are awful. RTO, but "site leads" come to the office once every other month. We had a gnat infestation last for months, despite constant escalations to the site lead. I had experiences where I could not finish a single sentence without being interrupted by the org director, and almost every single concern or idea I brought up was dismissed or shut down. When the forewarned issues arrived, the IC is written as the one who did not deliver the commitments.