Personio reviews

3.2

48% would recommend to a friend

(443 total reviews)
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Hanno Renner

52% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Personio has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 443 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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443 reviews
1.0
Aug 31, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice team of SDRs. Some nice managers

Cons

Awful atmosphere in UKI. People being fired left and right. All nice management sacked. Uki Higher management completely incapable of understanding their staff

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Personio Response
2y
Hello, thank you for your feedback. We’re sorry to hear that you haven’t enjoyed your entire Personio experience, especially the working atmosphere. We know that sometimes decisions to part ways with employees can be difficult and we’re constantly evolving the ways in which we communicate leavers to the team. Nonetheless, we want to protect the privacy of each of our employees and the decisions that are being made, and act in their best interest. Still we want to assure you that we value our people and want to provide each employee with a sense of security and safety, and we’ll use your feedback to improve here as well. A part of improving our leadership experience is developing, guiding and teaching leaders, allowing for feedback in all directions, but also bringing on new talented leaders that can get us to where we want to be as an organization. For example, we recently brought on really experienced leaders, based in the UK, who are already making a really positive impact. If you’d like to continue this conversation in person and discuss in more detail, please reach out to us at glassdoor@personio.de. Best regards, Clare GTM Business Manager
1.0
Aug 31, 2023

Very chaotic place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is ok Some nice colleagues

Cons

Personio is a very chaotic place to work. There are constant mixed messages from leadership and little strategy. As soon as you start working on something the priorities change so a lot of work is wasted. - The targets are impossible to reach outside of Germany - The product does not fit any markets outside of Germany. The product also has a poor UI compared to competitors and has not advanced much - People managers have little training or experience - While culture is touted as being strong, I found this to be a lie and there was little positive about the culture. Based on recent employee surveys the culture seems to have turned toxic. - Very junior colleagues with too much responsibility thrust upon them so they fail - A lot of turnover, particularly in sales - There is real fear about competitors, and a desire to try and copy what they are doing, especially the US ones.

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Personio Response
2y
Hello, thank you for taking the time to provide feedback. Personio is currently going through a period of tremendous growth. Our teams are expanding, processes are evolving, and with that our customer support services and product offering is being extended as well. All to make sure we can keep exceeding customer expectations. We’re aware that with all of that growth, comes a bit of ambiguity and it can feel chaotic at times. But this also gives us the opportunity to learn and grow every day, which is exactly what we want to be doing at our stage of business. Nonetheless, we always want to enable our teams to do their best work, and we are already working to implement new and different training and adding to our processes that are already in place – both for our leaders and for Personios throughout the Sales team. Leadership is also continually working to evolve our go to market strategy and how we execute on it, collaborating across the company to ensure strong execution. If you’d like, we’d be happy to hear more about your experience and how we can continue to improve. Feel free to reach out at glassdoor@personio.de Best regards, Clare
2.0
Aug 21, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting peers, free beer, average free coffee, nice office (mostly).

Cons

A lot of not competent executive hires recently, amateur planning process, lack of vision, messy execution.

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Personio Response
2y
Hello, Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us. While I’m happy you’ve met interesting colleagues and enjoy the atmosphere in our office, I’m disappointed to read that the rest of your experience isn’t meeting your expectations. As you know, Personio is growing fast, and we're proud to welcome diverse leaders with fresh perspectives and extensive scaling experience to our team. We’re here to have a big impact not only on our business but importantly on the HR industry as a whole. Helping thousands of small and medium-sized organizations to power great employee experience using our platform is what gets us motivated. Transparency is an important part of how we run Personio. As Personio continues to grow, we've received feedback that pushing all communications to everyone creates noise and information overload that isn't scalable. So, we've adopted a balanced approach. Information that is relevant to everyone will be communicated in mass forums to ensure all our push communication remains relevant for all employees. Whereas information that is for a specific audience is now shared in targeted spaces, while remaining accessible to anyone interested in finding and consuming it. Matters involving specific individuals will be handled sensitively and confidentially to honor their privacy. Having said that, I recognize that there are growing pains associated with hypergrowth and lots of new people joining at the same time can be challenging. I’d find it helpful to hear more details about your experience if you’re comfortable sharing? Feel free to reach out to me on Slack for a confidential chat or to any other trusted member of the People team or your lead. Best wishes, Maria Angelidou-Smith, Chief Product and Technology Officer
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