Pretty on the outside, a cult on the inside - Software Engineer Personio Employee Review

- A cult-like atmosphere where people idolise Personio and leaders of the company way too much. You must be a smiling, happy, Personio-loving employee otherwise you are weird! How could anyone not love Personio? - I was told before accepting my contract that I can get a raise after 6 months (probation) by talking to my manager. After joining I realised their process does not allow a raise before 1 year of being with the company, and that's very very optimistic, they rarely do that and they were very surprised that I asked for a raise so "early" as they say. They didn't take any accountability for what their own internal recruiting lead had promised me. Don't trust their promises. - Their processes are quite inflexible and very slow. The performance review cycle specially. The managers are powerless when it comes to company-level processes, and oh my, everything is a company-level process here. Performance review is done company-wide (and they have more than a 1000 employees, imagine how slow this company-wide process is), and managers don't have the power to do something like that outside the process. - They say we care about retention, but in reality they have no retention strategy: if you decide to leave because of other offers, the best they can offer you is promises of swimming in millions once they "moonshot". - High work load and intensity. Some of the teams have to maintain and develop very large areas with very little resources. - What ends up happening as a result of the not having enough people to address things in time, is that the managers get a tendency to micromanage their engineers and crunch them down to "numbers" to make sure they hit their targets.