Personio reviews

- The pay looks good on paper but Personio will do everything to not promote people, I saw many engineers denied promotions that they deserved for a long time. - They use nonsense barriers for promotion to hold back well-deserved promotions. - The development environment and tooling are completely broken. - There is no engineering leadership at this company. - Company is run by product/business people with no engineering voice, so decisions are made haphazardly and engineering teams are left running to catch up. - Company has been replaced at nearly every level by ex-Facebook employees, importing an American-style work culture. - Claim to want to redesign the product, only to layoff all of the designers who have designed the new version of the product - Overtime is expected. Claim to be a "fast-paced start-up" as an excuse. - Cross-team alignment/collaboration is non-existent, everyone works in complete silos, demands come from other teams out of nowhere. Teams building the same services side-by-side, or teams building out functionality that nobody asked for. - The performance review process is a complicated mess, an Excel sheet where you are expected to fight for your job and argue for everything you've done. - Many employees have admitted to working on this Excel sheet after hours and on weekends - Unnecessary redundancies have cut understaffed teams even further than they already were. Personio wanted to pretend to be Facebook and do layoffs like all the other FAANGS and export Jobs to the US & Poland. - People were measured by story points, which were completely made up and not representative of actual work. - People who had no 1-1 with their managers only to be made redundant out of nowhere - Engineers were forced to move onto new teams and then made redundant because they didn't get up to speed quickly enough. Another review stated this and it rings true; They think they're a FAANG but they pay like Personio.

- 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.