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      Personio reviews

      3.2

      48% would recommend to a friend

      (442 total reviews)
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      Hanno Renner

      52% approve of CEO

      37% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      3.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.5

      Work/Life balance

      3.1

      Culture & values

      2.8

      Career opportunities

      2.7

      Senior management

      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
      2.0
      Apr 11, 2022

      Highly Consider before taking the job at Personio (DUBLIN)

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Unlimited snacks and drinks at the office - Friendly office workers and environment. Great location in the center (but most big enterprises do) - Good/Standard Salary and bonus - Stock vesting

      Cons

      - The benefit of GYM is useless. You need to pay some extra fees to go to the gym, otherwise, the basic gym benefits only cover online classes on an app. Their gym partner is super far from the center and you need to pay extra (15, 30, 70EUR) to subscribe. - Surprisingly, there is NO phone for employees, not even a sim card. Laptop is not of your choice, some get Mac air some get Mac pro. - The relocation support is unclear and shady. At first, I was told it was 2500 EUR, then when I accepted the job, it turned out 1000 EUR. The package covers basically the hotel when you stay. They will NOT help you to find an apartment or a room, but rather some websites for you to struggle with. - The company culture does NOT nurture REMOTE work, not even remote from Dublin. Internal information from the managers is that they are OFFICE FIRST company. The culture of Personio Flexibility for remote work is to attract and mislead people. - The TRANSPORTATION benefit sucks. You need to purchase a monthly bus subscription of 125 EUR/month. Personio will cover 43.5 EUR out of that to your gross salary, which will be taxed... - Regarding DUBLIN, rent is really high up sky, really a big issue to look for even a room.

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      Personio Response
      4y
      Hello, thank you for taking the time to leave us feedback! We’re sorry to hear some of our benefits didn’t align with your expectations. We’re focused on providing an excellent people experience, and we know a significant portion of that is the benefits a company provides. You are right, our culture is office-lead but remote friendly. We love the opportunities to come together in our offices, and equally enjoy the flexibility to work remotely up to half of the time – including while traveling outside of your home country. We believe this flexibility is a great compromise and gives our teams the best of both worlds. Many of the benefits are subsidies, as you mentioned, which means that Personio does not cover the entire gym cost, for example, but simply makes it cheaper if using that benefit is of interest to you. We appreciate the opportunity to continue improving, and feedback from former Personios is a great way to do that. If you’d like to continue this conversation, we’d be happy to hear from you. Just send me an email at cassandra.hoermann@personio.de!
      5.0
      Mar 31, 2022

      Backend Engineer Interview

      Backend engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      * They have a smooth hiring process. * Feedbacks are provided in no less than 1 working day, after each round. * Everyone is so kind and patient during the whole interview process.

      Cons

      The iteration of resume\ CV took sometime to propagate, but can understand as they have lot to process and filter.

      2.0
      Mar 25, 2022

      Inconsistent leadership but great place to learn

      Sales development representative (sdr)
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great people, team environment, lot's of learning opportunities and exposure to sales (you will really learn a lot)! Start-up environment, perks are decent and there's plenty of team nights out - my team was the best part of my time in Personio. The product is very good, along with the marketing so the brand is known in Europe. Really liked the location of the office in Dublin & liked that Personio made a big effort to bring the entire team together in Munich last year!

      Cons

      Some of these are part of working in a start up but for me, these were the biggest reasons why I left Personio. Firstly, it's extremely difficult to hit targets - the salary is good but not if you can't actually get your full OTE without completely sacrificing work life balance. Targets are very high and there is no "ideal customer profile" in Personio because they believe every SMB will want to buy, which is simply not the case. Leadership is massively inconsistent. Personio has a very young workforce and most people are their first "X" job so they're learning on the job. My manager was great, I learned a lot during my time there & got training and feedback that still helps me today in my new SD role. However, my manager had limited time due to the number of people on my team since Personio is growing so fast and as a result, sometimes I felt that I was taking too much time if I needed help outside of our weekly calls. Inconsistent promotion criteria - this was huge on the SD team and I have friends that also experienced this in other departments. Some people did not hit their targets but got promoted to AE roles, other people got VERY similar results and were actually let go. How was this justified? It wasn't. It seems to be that if it suits Personio, because an AE role needs to be filled, even low performers will get promoted. BUT if you're not hitting those impossible targets and there's nowhere for you to go, then you'll be let go - research this on LinkedIn, it's quite visible.

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      Personio Response
      4y
      Hello, and thank you for this feedback! Creating an excellent employee experience is our top priority, and feedback like this is a great opportunity for us to continue to improve.We have received feedback about targets and are already implementing changes to ensure our teams have a healthy work-life balance. Similarly, we have decreased the number of direct reports that our team leads are managing in order to give them more time to support their teams. And we’ve also listened to feedback about our promotion system and are currently designing a completely new framework to ensure fair, equal, and unbiased promotion experiences for all Personios. If you’d like to provide more feedback, we’re very open to hearing it! Just send me an email at cassandra.hoermann@personio.de.
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