Good heart but lots to work on! - Anonymous employee Personio Employee Review

3.0
Oct 19, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Great transparency and visibility from the CEO and leadership team - Good people working here, nice vibe across offices - Very focused on culture and values - Company are doing great and have a high upside

Cons

- Lots of young people with no previous management experience in leadership roles, can make processes more complicated when they dont need to be - Salaries and benefits not up to market standard, this is changing but not fast enough - Meeting heavy and German centric at times - Opps given to people closer to Munich - No working from home allowance - Still need to be in an office 50% even though it's "remote friendly" - Not a very diverse workforce and diversity not top of mind company wide - Micromanagement culture on some teams

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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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