Personio: A company that values people - Service Designer Personio Employee Review

4.0
Feb 1, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- The company really makes an effort to have and keep a great Culture. People are great (eg. good attitude, respectful, collaborative) - Onboarding process (although a bit intense, they provide one and make a big effort on improving it all the time). - Providing and receiving feedback is very important, as is part of our company values. - The company cares about employee mental health and as a complementary benefit provides a free 1hr a week therapy sessions with a psychologist (eg. service provided by TherapyChat). - You can go to any of the other offices and work from there for a couple of weeks (eg. Amsterdam, Dublin, Madrid, Munich, London). - With PersonioFlex you can also work from home, remotely for a few weeks or months (depending on the country) and even apply to be a Culture Carrier and experience the culture and live in another city w/ a Personio office (for 3-6 months). - Lost of autonomy and trust from managers and teammates. - Communication sometimes is not the best, but there is a great effort in being transparent and management is finding ways to communicate things better and faster.

Cons

- Too many meetings, sometimes it's hard to manage time and get things done between so many calls (eg. company wide, domain wide, team wide, agile ceremonies, focus time, 1:1s, coffee chats, onboarding, interviews with candidates). - Rapid growth can be stressful (eg. workload, assuming some tasks and responsibilities while waiting for the right roles to join the team). - This may be only relevant for Spanish people, there are NO intensive workdays (eg. Fridays, Summer, Christmas Holidays).

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5.0
Oct 14, 2025
Recommend
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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
CEO approval
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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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