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
2.0
Nov 3, 2025

Mess

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Sweet coworkers, fun to work with them. Long deadlines meant rare OT and proper time to get work done.

Cons

Actual company structure was a mess, pipelines were all over the place, high ups out of touch

1.0
Nov 1, 2025

Falling apart at the seams

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Worked with excellent people and on a great product.

Cons

I think the leadership team is grasping at straws trying to make the company IPO-ready.

2.0
Oct 31, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The salary is still slightly higher than other startups.

Cons

The company leadership has a lack of accountability: every now and then they say things will change and get better, but they only know how to blame the employees. Every change that happens goes at the employees level but the leadership changes nothing. The company was able to hire good leaders in the past, but they all left and the remaining ones are quite lost. The bureaucracy is very German-like, changes are impossible to happen and everything moves slowly. The company domain is very specific and complex, but still the company favors new people over the existing ones. New people have no proper onboarding because there is no one to do it. Promotions are very hard, you need to put so much effort that it seem impossible. You need to get a sponsor and hope they can “sell” you good enough for the leadership. But the real issue is that they rather hire someone new than promote you.

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