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Hi, thank you for taking the time to provide this feedback. Of course, I’m sad to hear this is how you’re feeling. We want our Personios to have a positive experience working here, so this is disappointing to read, particularly your thoughts on culture change and leadership.
If you feel comfortable, we’d encourage you to have a confidential chat with your team lead or manager about your concerns, as feedback is how we grow and improve. Or a trusted member of the People team would be happy to have a conversation.
As you know, Personio is currently experiencing a period of intense growth. Our teams and our product offering are expanding at speed, and while this is exciting, change can certainly be difficult. Within our Product & Technology team in particular, we are focused on using this period to learn, grow, and create a green field state for our product.
This focus stems from our new product strategy, which prioritizes an increased product quality and overall speed of shipping new features to our customers. All of this is part of raising the bar at Personio, as we continue to work hard to deliver the best product we can for our customers
And we can’t meet our goals without diverse and talented people. That means new leaders coming in who have the experience to help us scale; new team members, so we have more capacity to build; and a big focus on empowering and investing in our existing Personios by supporting their development and promotion. It also means iterating on our ways of working, and enabling our teams to hire amazing people who are based in different markets and working in teams that are often distributed or fully remote
Because of this, sometimes collaboration is needed in person, which can mean travel. But our focus on becoming a greener organization, brand, and product means we don’t take these decisions to travel lightly. We’re proud of the work we’ve done already, but we know there’s always room to improve! We have more detail on our travel policy and approach to sustainability on Confluence and would be open to further feedback on this.
Overall, scaling teams is challenging and means a lot of change and some growing pains along the way. Like all start-ups, we’re learning as we go, and we haven’t always got it right. Which is why we value feedback so much.
Thank you again for this review. Please feel free to Slack me and we can have a confidential chat.
- Cassandra, Head of People Experience
