Personio reviews

3.3

50% would recommend to a friend

(440 total reviews)
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Hanno Renner

55% approve of CEO

39% positive business outlook

Personio has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 440 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Personio employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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440 reviews
1.0
Sep 8, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

People are great. Really good technically and on a personal level. Great office

Cons

Since I joined, Personio was a mess. No strategy, no plans. Whatever we did seemed random. Since the beginning of 2022, Product Managers were and continue struggle, having break downs, lots of stress and a total lack of work-life balance. The company is going through replatforming and other very technical projects, which turns product managers into project managers of impossible projects. This will likely continue for months. Avoid joining the company. No matter how many Linkedin posts you see or how many good reviews you see - Personio continuously asks their employees to posts these - avoid the company for the next 12 months or so.

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Personio Response
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Hello, thank you for reaching out with this feedback! It's valuable for us to hear and helps us take action to improve. We're glad you enjoy our spaces and your teammates but are sorry to hear the rest of your experience hasn't lived up to expectations. If you're open to it, please reach out to your team's People Partner – they are there specifically to support Personios at all levels with topics like this. Or, if you'd like to discuss your experience in more detail, I'd be happy to talk more with you about how we can make changes moving forward. Please feel free to email me at Cassandra.Hoermann@personio.de.
2.0
Apr 23, 2024

Chaotic with lots of politics

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

High pay with WFH flexibility

Cons

Highly matrixed org with tons of approvals and reviews needed. Tough to make a meaningful impact.

3.0
Sep 6, 2020

Ok

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good culture - Very transparent - Lot of benefits - Flexible work - Some good trainings in the company - You don't need to work so much if you want (I don't consider this as a pro, however a lot of people do)

Cons

At least for engineering: - Very different performance evaluation based on your team team: Your engineering manager will judge you to see whether you deserve or not a promotion. In one team it can be very easy, in another one, doing the same work and having the same role, it can be almost impossible - as it's mostly based on the EM perspective. They of course get some feedback from peer, but this is not taken so much in account in the end; - Very different approaches EM approaches: Some of them are really technical (without so much personal skills), some of them are just making interviews, and just a few, really care about you and try to help you growth / mentor you. - No career path defined yet. They say they have, but still, not clear, just could see a few dudes moving from Junior -> Professional. There's a lot of promises in the air for more than a year, but are just promises. Recently they even announced a team lead position in the engineering, which is very confusing and doesn't increase your salary - You just get an informal title (and more work) - Very crazy difference of salary among folks with the same leve. If you are starting now, there's a chance that you earn EASILY 15-20k more than a developer working for the same level for more than 2 years in the company, just because the company is desesparated looking for new developers. So while this is a very good business in case you are applying for a position now, is terrible for some good guys working there for a while. - Same as above: Because new hires have 10% of their gross salary in equity, and now the company is paying much more compared to before, usually these new hirings have almost the same amount of equity compared to people working for a long in the company - Even if the level is not so high in the engineering department, there are some exceptions, and those exceptions are really good - and most of them are working for a while in the company (>2 years). However, usually the company will prefer to hire someone from outside to occupy a higher level role (e.g directos, leads, and so) than promoting someone in house. - The Design Team coordination is terrible, most of them don't have experience nor a true leader to help them to grow. Because of this, the UI still is very bad, with a lot of flaws - and even after hiring > 10 designers and one lead, the NPS related to UI are still decreasing.

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