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
2.0
Jan 26, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay Smart staff and nice office to work in (can work remote too)

Cons

* Awful management, very U.S. focussed with little faith in Europe even though it's a German company. Start hiring only supposed experts from GAFAM and laid off excellent staff. * Slowly tuning into another U.S. culture fanboy company * Very bureaucratic, every decision seems to have 10 people from management with their fingers in the pie. * Terrible planning that changes every couple of months and is always a priority (on top of the priorities you already have]. * Meeting overload and a culture which is burnout central. A serious lack of concern from the management who will just say 'it's a fast paced environment', it's really a badly managed environment. * Some benefits advertised when you join are non-existant as they are limited in numbers (scooters) and they were even advertised to people being hired in other locations where they are not available at all.

3.0
Jan 25, 2024

Fair place to work

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Competitive compensation and benefits, with a flexible work culture.

Cons

Multiple levels of management and ever-changing priorities

2.0
Jan 25, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Used to work with amazing and passionate colleagues everyday.

Cons

The new senior managers that were bought in, the CEO decided to change course, kicked the CPO and CTO co-founders away and replaced them with a whole layer FAANG topped by a CPTO. This management layer never cared about existing culture or way of doing things, and takes decisions on the backroom without any justifications, always presenting them as the good of the company. Hiring focus is now the US to bring more expertise to the workforce, Only Staff+ (L6+) levels are being hired, forget about applying if you resume doesn't have Staff or FAANG. You are also expected to follow the hierarchy and not raise waves. This is now a code shop and that's it. Innovation and fun are dead.

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