Potential to grow and excel to be a top employer in the future even if it needs hard work from a lot of - Sales Development Representative (SDR) Personio Employee Review

3.0
31 Mar 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Workplace and colleagues are one of my best experience in worklife this far. A lot of potential in both colleagues and managers to develop with the right tools, motivation and coaching. - Potential to excel with right tools and motivation. During the onboarding and ramp up you getting a lot of valuable sessions that helping you to take the next step in your career. - HR and People department really cares about you and listen to your needs, something I really got to experience when I left the company.

Cons

- Be more open minded that processes and criterias that works for the main market and teams do not necessarily need to work for other markets and teams depending on competitions on the market, how culture, people and laws is structured in different countries etc. - The relationship between the SDR team and AE team can be more transparent and genuine, sometimes it feels like each team is focusing more about themselves than the whole region and company which makes fragments in the collaboration, should feel like two teams that works together and not against each other - Micromanaging (not that much in my team but have heard it from other teams that decrease the motivation and trust in some individuals) - At the same time that management could improve in different ways so can the SDRs and AEs. Even if there is high criterias and targets that during periods are very hard to reach for everyone there could be more employees that put in more effort and sometimes maybe stay over in the office when needed to increase the opportunities to perform well.

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Personio Response
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Hello, thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us. We're happy to hear that you enjoyed working with your colleagues and that you felt supported by our People department. At the same time we’re sorry that not all of your experience at Personio was as positive. We have heard some of the points you mentioned before and it is valuable to us that you share your experience. We are actively working on increasing our efforts in each market to ensure that all of our teams are set up for success and can bring their best in the right conditions. At the same time we want to foster a transparent environment of trust and empowerment, because that’s how we can best achieve our goals together. So we take your feedback seriously and can assure you that we are working on improving this experience across our locations. We have already shared your feedback with your People Partners and leadership and we’re happy to discuss it with you in more detail if you’re open to that. Feel free to reach out at Cassandra.Hoermann@personio.de!

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