Pros
Great office and a very multicultural team compared to other companies in Munich. Looks good on your resume, and everyone gets a lot of contact from recruiters, even in the current economy.
Cons
New leadership in tech over the past 12 months. A “CPTO” joined from Meta but has no actual background in engineering. She is also very unfriendly and only talks with really senior people or the new team she brought with her from Meta. If you say hello to her in the hallway she just looks down and keeps walking. Personio has invested a lot in new engineering talent over the past 12 months, really a lot. Great people, but we don’t have much to show for the investment after a year. The application is no better than it was a year ago, and we still ship unfinished mvps that break or require a lot of manual steps to make things work. Meta is an amazing product no doubt, but what Personio does in Europe is just very different. I’m not sure any of them understand what we need to do. Also a lot of people are very on edge and anxious since the change in leadership. A lot of people just disappear with no communication from one day to the next. There are so many rumours of a big cut coming so they can hire more people in the US. We also removed our long-term values of transparency and communication. A lot of people say this is growing pains, but I don’t think so. The culture is bad. Many of my colleagues and me included are not too far from being fully vested. There are many discussions of leaving as soon as we’re fully vested.
