A place that grows and enables growth - Product Manager Personio Employee Review

5.0
22 Apr 2024
Recommend
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Pros

I have been working at Personio for a few years now and I have seen the company grow from an early stage startup to a professional scale up, while always fostering an environment where people can learn and get a chance to prove and expand their skills. The company has changed a lot over the years. Almost every year felt like a different company. Not only has the number of employees increased, but as Personio has grown, our processes have become more professional, our ways of working have improved, and our strategy has become sharper. Personio is very supportive of my work-life balance: I have a cargo bike through Jobrad, I can flex my working hours to pick up my kid from daycare, and the internal development offer includes coaching sessions.

Cons

I'd love to see more benefits for parents as in the last years Personio's benefit structure was mainly focused on enlarging the offering for trainings/development, health topics and such. Support on finding daycare facilities or babysitter agencies would be amazing.

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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

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

1.0
30 Oct 2025
Recommend
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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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