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      Poor leadership - Anonymous employee Personio Employee Review

      3.0
      Feb 9, 2023
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great peers, fun to work with but overall a bit of a toxic culture. Decent compensation and benefits for a start-up.

      Cons

      Poor and constantly changing (senior) leadership in marketing and across the business. Managers are biased and talk badly about their own team members. Many have hardly any experience in leading teams and therefore cannot develop their team members. The product is mediocre.

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      Personio Response
      3y
      Hello, thank you for your feedback. We’re sorry to hear that some aspects of your experience weren’t as positive as we aim to make them. Personio is experiencing growth, and part of that means bringing in new leadership to help steer us in the right direction. We definitely understand that this growth comes with some speed bumps, but investing in our leaders, and therefore our whole team, is a top priority. If you are open to a further conversation, we would be interested in learning more about your experience and how we can continue to improve. Please feel free to reach out to me at Cassandra.hoermann@personio.de!

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      5.0
      Oct 14, 2025
      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      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
      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      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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