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      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

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      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
      1.0
      May 29, 2024

      Overworked, Underpaid

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Salary is good on paper - Stock options look nice - WFH 100% of the time

      Cons

      - The pay looks good on paper but Personio will do everything to not promote people, I saw many engineers denied promotions that they deserved for a long time. - They use nonsense barriers for promotion to hold back well-deserved promotions. - The development environment and tooling are completely broken. - There is no engineering leadership at this company. - Company is run by product/business people with no engineering voice, so decisions are made haphazardly and engineering teams are left running to catch up. - Company has been replaced at nearly every level by ex-Facebook employees, importing an American-style work culture. - Claim to want to redesign the product, only to layoff all of the designers who have designed the new version of the product - Overtime is expected. Claim to be a "fast-paced start-up" as an excuse. - Cross-team alignment/collaboration is non-existent, everyone works in complete silos, demands come from other teams out of nowhere. Teams building the same services side-by-side, or teams building out functionality that nobody asked for. - The performance review process is a complicated mess, an Excel sheet where you are expected to fight for your job and argue for everything you've done. - Many employees have admitted to working on this Excel sheet after hours and on weekends - Unnecessary redundancies have cut understaffed teams even further than they already were. Personio wanted to pretend to be Facebook and do layoffs like all the other FAANGS and export Jobs to the US & Poland. - People were measured by story points, which were completely made up and not representative of actual work. - People who had no 1-1 with their managers only to be made redundant out of nowhere - Engineers were forced to move onto new teams and then made redundant because they didn't get up to speed quickly enough. Another review stated this and it rings true; They think they're a FAANG but they pay like Personio.

      1.0
      Sep 23, 2023

      Keep Away

      Product manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      All just branding and fake

      Cons

      just a club for ex metas

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      Personio Response
      2y
      Hello, Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us. I hope you had the opportunity to share your concerns with your lead or a member of the People team before leaving. As you know, Personio is growing fast, and we're proud to welcome diverse leaders with fresh perspectives and extensive scaling experience to our team. We’re here to have a big impact not only on our business but importantly on the HR industry as a whole. Helping thousands of small and medium-sized organizations to power great employee experience using our platform is what gets us motivated. In the past year, we were excited to welcome 26 different nationalities from 90+ different companies into our product and technology organization. This brings a wealth of diversity of thought that will have a positive impact on our product and our culture. However, I acknowledge that while hypergrowth is a great environment to learn lots, fast, it can be challenging and it’s not for everyone. Our Personio Principles describe the mindset that guide the ways we work together to have most impact on our customers, we encourage anyone interested to learn more about them here: https://www.personio.com/about-personio/careers/culture/ If you’re open to a confidential conversation to provide further insights into your experience or discuss any concerns, please contact us at glassdoor@personio.de, and our team will connect us. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Maria Angelidou-Smith, Chief Product and Technology Officer
      2.0
      Jan 26, 2022

      Pretty on the outside, a cult on the inside

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Tech stack is interesting, there are engineering challenges to be solved, specially at their rate of hypergrowth (but you don't have time to do it properly, see below) - A good portion of people are nice

      Cons

      - A cult-like atmosphere where people idolise Personio and leaders of the company way too much. You must be a smiling, happy, Personio-loving employee otherwise you are weird! How could anyone not love Personio? - I was told before accepting my contract that I can get a raise after 6 months (probation) by talking to my manager. After joining I realised their process does not allow a raise before 1 year of being with the company, and that's very very optimistic, they rarely do that and they were very surprised that I asked for a raise so "early" as they say. They didn't take any accountability for what their own internal recruiting lead had promised me. Don't trust their promises. - Their processes are quite inflexible and very slow. The performance review cycle specially. The managers are powerless when it comes to company-level processes, and oh my, everything is a company-level process here. Performance review is done company-wide (and they have more than a 1000 employees, imagine how slow this company-wide process is), and managers don't have the power to do something like that outside the process. - They say we care about retention, but in reality they have no retention strategy: if you decide to leave because of other offers, the best they can offer you is promises of swimming in millions once they "moonshot". - High work load and intensity. Some of the teams have to maintain and develop very large areas with very little resources. - What ends up happening as a result of the not having enough people to address things in time, is that the managers get a tendency to micromanage their engineers and crunch them down to "numbers" to make sure they hit their targets.

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      Personio Response
      4y
      Hello, thank you for reaching out to us with this feedback. We always strive to provide only the best employee experience and appreciate opportunities to learn as we #SeekToImprove. You are correct, many of our teams are very busy as Personio is experiencing hypergrowth and reaching toward ambitious goals. We are actively working to solve this issue through our 2022 hiring plan, where each department and team lead is empowered to hire the roles they need to succeed. We have also recently rolled out a new performance, leveling, and salary review system to increase efficiency and continue to improve objectivity throughout the process. Each employee is evaluated by the same measurements and standards as their peers, without exception. While we understand that not every employee will be happy with the outcome of every performance review, we are committed to providing only a fair, objective review every time. We’re sorry you didn’t fully enjoy your experience at Personio, and we do appreciate the feedback. We’ll continue to aim for an outstanding experience for each employee. If you’d like to discuss your situation more, please feel free to reach out to me at cassandra.hoermann@personio.de.
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