An outstanding job - Anonymous employee Personio Employee Review

5.0
Aug 21, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- open culture with high transparency - even though the company is rapidly growing everyone is very welcoming and the HR team does a great job to make the start of each new employee as comfortable as possible - very nice individual on-boarding plan - open feedback culture - flat hierarchies - management employees do not make a big deal out of their position + one can easily go into a discussion with everyone - one does feel the good vibes - the company offers a bunch of great benefits including regular company events like a ski trip to the Alps - great new office with up-to-date tech

Cons

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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
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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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