Very chill company to work at - Senior Software Engineer Personio Employee Review

The company has IPO ambitions, and that makes sense when you consider that it has raised over $700M over its lifetime. It has to pay back the investors somehow. So everyone complaining about the company culture changing, the work pressure, the leadership changes etc. - well, that is what it takes to get to the next level. You don’t grow at this rate, be profitable AND build new lines of business by doing what you’ve always done. Folks who are here and can get behind what, at times, may seem like a grind, are here because they are trying to build something remarkable. It’s not meant to be comfortable.

The company has its fair share of challenges that it needs to address. - Lack of proper planning - Lack of sufficient transparency and communication, especially from leadership at the department level - Lack of focus — too many things! But show me a single company that has it all figured out and I’ll show you my pet unicorn.

Smart collaborative colleagues at the lower IC levels.

Personio is a dying company. The over-complexity of the company's technical systems is comical. Every attempt to simplify seems to lead to more complexity as things get half migrated and left to rot. Engineering leadership seems clueless and unable to present a clear plan-of-action to get things on track. Principal engineers force engineering time to be spent on silly projects that don't move the needle long-term. There is an overall aversion to taking the time to learn deeply about systems being used. Personio feels like a combination of all of the negatives of both a startup and a mature tech company, with none of the positives. The tech is half assed and duct taped together, but still somehow everything moves at a glacial pace. There is a mass shared delusion at the company that an IPO is in reach. No investor is going to buy this company's junk shares on the open market.