Great culture & colleagues - Senior Solutions Engineer Personio Employee Review

5.0
May 9, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

I've never worked in a place before where everyone is so friendly, open and willing to collaborate. The culture and colleagues are just the amazing. Compensation is well aligned to market. There are opportunities for growth & develop within the company. Some areas of Personio offer you the possibility to really make an impact and influence the strategy

Cons

You need to be able to deal with ambiguity. There may be more than 2000 employees but due to quick growth, some of the processes/parts of the org are still on early stages or don't exist at all. Performance cycles & salary increases are quite rigid.

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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
Recommend
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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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