Personio reviews

3.2

48% would recommend to a friend

(443 total reviews)
avatar

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).

Reviews by job title

443 reviews
5.0
Apr 22, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I have been working at Personio for a few years now and I have seen the company grow from an early stage startup to a professional scale up, while always fostering an environment where people can learn and get a chance to prove and expand their skills. The company has changed a lot over the years. Almost every year felt like a different company. Not only has the number of employees increased, but as Personio has grown, our processes have become more professional, our ways of working have improved, and our strategy has become sharper. Personio is very supportive of my work-life balance: I have a cargo bike through Jobrad, I can flex my working hours to pick up my kid from daycare, and the internal development offer includes coaching sessions.

Cons

I'd love to see more benefits for parents as in the last years Personio's benefit structure was mainly focused on enlarging the offering for trainings/development, health topics and such. Support on finding daycare facilities or babysitter agencies would be amazing.

1.0
Apr 2, 2024

Toxic culture, micromanagement

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good salary Work from home and remote working policy is good

Cons

- The most fake and toxic culture I have ever seen. Everyone acts nice but colleagues are climbing over each other to prove they are better than others due to fear of losing their jobs. Lots of back stabbing and gossip. - There's a strong micromanagement culture. Management lacks trust and every decision is controlled by many managers. So much time is spent on reporting to management. - Very inexperienced managers who only look out for themselves. They don't listen to feedback and just tell you what to do. - A high number of employees are being managed out or made redundant. If you make a mistake or voice your opinion you're likely to be put on a performance plan to push you out. - Management prefer waterfall approach and you need to define all requirements up front or you will be punished. - Very slow delivery. It takes forever to build basic features due to so many teams being involved and people don't know how to work together. - The product organization is very immature/inexperienced. You won't learn anything here if you're a junior product manager (just bad habits), and if you're experienced, you'll be frustrated by how poor things are. - Most people want to leave and the recent employee feedback is terrible but management don't care.

Viewing 142 - 144 of 443 Reviews

Glassdoor has 676 Personio reviews submitted anonymously by Personio employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Personio is right for you.