Great Place to Work - People and Workplace Personio Employee Review

5.0
12 July 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Scaling company so a lot of opportunity to grow and make a direct impact on your career - Transparency from the top down, management open and approachable - It is clear what the company goals are and how each team/org has a clear understanding of how they can help to achieve that - Ownership - a lot of responsibility to own and manage your own projects and day to day work - Really nice and friendly colleagues and a great culture of work and fun

Cons

- While we are growing we may have to deal with a certain level of ambiguity

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5.0
14 Oct 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

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

Cons

The company has had a lot of churn at Director+ levels, not a clear vision across the company

1.0
30 Oct 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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