Does Personio pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Personio employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.6 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Personio. This rating has decreased by 6% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Personio?

48% of Personio employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Personio 3.5 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.1 for culture and values and 2.8 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Personio?

Sales Development Representative (SDR) (46) , Account Executive (31) , Senior Software Engineer (30) , Software Engineer (26) , Product Designer (11) , Working Student (11) , Sales (9) , Sales Development Representative (9) , Customer Growth Manager (8) , Intern (8) , Product Manager (8) , Customer Success Manager (7) , Implementation Manager (7) , Engineering Manager (6) , Backend Engineer (5)

What are the pros of working at Personio according to real employee reviews?

"Culture has been great 5 years ago and Personio managed to keep it up although hyper growth which I am very impressed of." ((in 78 reviews)); "Great colleagues and an international and open minded environment" ((in 56 reviews)); "The people are great and passionate." ((in 55 reviews)); "Good benefits" ((in 38 reviews)); "The salary was good and they provided you the option to relocate somewhere where they have an office." ((in 31 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Personio according to real employee reviews?

"Bad and toxic leadership" ((in 31 reviews)); "I want to highlight again the words: poor management, they are driving the company out of business step by step." ((in 25 reviews)); "Managers constantly traveling between countries contradicts the environmental consciousness in the company's PR posts." ((in 17 reviews)); "The company has changed significantly after the last layoffs." ((in 13 reviews)); "Terrible leadership, bad decision making over and over again and also communication." ((in 5 reviews))

What are employees saying about Personio layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Personio layoffs and their outlook for job security at Personio in 2026.

Personio reviews

3.2

48% would recommend to a friend

(442 total reviews)

Hanno Renner

52% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

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Personio has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 442 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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442 reviews

3.0

Mar 31, 2023

Potential to grow and excel to be a top employer in the future even if it needs hard work from a lot of

Sales development representative (sdr)

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- Workplace and colleagues are one of my best experience in worklife this far. A lot of potential in both colleagues and managers to develop with the right tools, motivation and coaching. - Potential to excel with right tools and motivation. During the onboarding and ramp up you getting a lot of valuable sessions that helping you to take the next step in your career. - HR and People department really cares about you and listen to your needs, something I really got to experience when I left the company.

Cons

- Be more open minded that processes and criterias that works for the main market and teams do not necessarily need to work for other markets and teams depending on competitions on the market, how culture, people and laws is structured in different countries etc. - The relationship between the SDR team and AE team can be more transparent and genuine, sometimes it feels like each team is focusing more about themselves than the whole region and company which makes fragments in the collaboration, should feel like two teams that works together and not against each other - Micromanaging (not that much in my team but have heard it from other teams that decrease the motivation and trust in some individuals) - At the same time that management could improve in different ways so can the SDRs and AEs. Even if there is high criterias and targets that during periods are very hard to reach for everyone there could be more employees that put in more effort and sometimes maybe stay over in the office when needed to increase the opportunities to perform well.

Personio Response

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Hello, thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us. We're happy to hear that you enjoyed working with your colleagues and that you felt supported by our People department. At the same time we’re sorry that not all of your experience at Personio was as positive. We have heard some of the points you mentioned before and it is valuable to us that you share your experience. We are actively working on increasing our efforts in each market to ensure that all of our teams are set up for success and can bring their best in the right conditions. At the same time we want to foster a transparent environment of trust and empowerment, because that’s how we can best achieve our goals together. So we take your feedback seriously and can assure you that we are working on improving this experience across our locations. We have already shared your feedback with your People Partners and leadership and we’re happy to discuss it with you in more detail if you’re open to that. Feel free to reach out at Cassandra.Hoermann@personio.de!

4.0

Mar 13, 2023

Great team, Lots of fun, still growing pains

Implementation manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

-Really supportive team -Management & Senior in Implementation really care

Cons

-Compensation could be better -Still figuring out some processes

4.0

Feb 10, 2023

Great company to work

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Good technical challenge. Great culture. Great place to work.

Cons

HR software is not the most motivating one.

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