Great onboarding experience - Junior Product Designer Personio Employee Review

5.0
5 Jan 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Despite it being remote due to the Pandemic, I can't complain about the application process and the onboarding process. They invested a lot of time in me, you get to meet some people from your future team before you join, the HR people are also really nice and helpful. I feel like the salary is also quite competitive. I'm still going through onboarding, so I'll know more about the internal workings soon. But everything I've seen till now has left a very good impression on me.

Cons

I can't think of much now, apart from the fact that everything is remote, so I can't meet my new team yet.

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5.0
14 Oct 2025
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Pros

My coworkers are wonderful, I feel energized coming to work everyday

Cons

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1.0
30 Oct 2025
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Pros

Smart collaborative colleagues at the lower IC levels.

Cons

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.

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