Changing culture and values - Customer Success Manager (CSM) Personio Employee Review

3.0
Aug 28, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I still believe Personio is on track to be extremely successful.

Cons

Personio used to be family. We were empowered and highly motivated. Regrettably now is just another company taking away all the perks that made it special. The company is focus on New leaders coming from ‘outside’, reducing internal development. Most of this new leaders are pushing micro-managing). Back to the office with the purpose of controlling employees, laptop activity control, reduced flexibility, control check in meetings (where are you, what have you done…) and motivating ‘chair warming’ instead of highly motivated-productive employees.

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5.0
Oct 14, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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