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

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
5.0
Oct 13, 2025

Excellent place to work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great colleagues, great compensation, interesting work!

Cons

Strategies change a bit suddenly, but this is normal in a scale-up!

1.0
Oct 8, 2025

Sure makes you question everything - including yourself.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Pay is good. Most people are very friendly.

Cons

Outdated, very limitedm or no documented processes - you can tell it was a startup and there haven't been any scalable processes in place so far. "Just ask" - you will get as many (wildly different) answers to the same question as the amount of people you asked - but don't worry, you can show ownership by choosing one and hoping it'll be okay. Management isn't clear or transparent, support is offered yet rarely given. "Let me get back to you" is what you'll hear no matter how urgent the topic. You'll have to do your best (and prove it) even when the hoops you're jumping through are constantly moving, some are taken away and some are added. Sure keeps you nimble. Unpaid over time, constant dismissal of concerns & ideas, uneven workload.

1.0
Oct 7, 2025

On a downward spiral - Avoid applying for here!

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Pros

- Culture at the start was great - Good salary & benefits - Promoting movement of employees between offices

Cons

- Managers who have little/no experience with massive egos and cannot take when their decisions are not accepted as the best way forward - Positions being filled by scratching each others back, instead of putting the best candidate into it. - Toxic culture - Overbearing German ways of working - No idea on how to internationalise leading to a withdrawal from other european markets to focus once again on Germany. - Switching strategy every 3 months which instilled crisis not confidence into people

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