Disappointing turn of events
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Stop micromanaging your employees and place some trust in them instead. Otherwise you risk losing incredible talent. An an HRTech company, you should be the ones to know how valuable talent is.
Live by the principles that you have established.
Listen to your employees and customers.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
The atmosphere used to be better in the past. Now, the atmosphere is driven by fear, pressure and bad vibes. Everyone seems to constantly be on edge and overworked. Due to constant layoffs, the once positive vibe does no longer exist. Moreover, while there used to be more flexibility for employees, the company has now implemented office attendance tracking via WIFI. Not only is this a legal grey zone, but it also shows the lack of trust and autonomy provided to employees. Micromanagement seems to have become the norm sadly.
Image
The company used to have a good image but with every month it feels that people are less and less motivated. Increasing customer complaints also show that the image is starting to fall apart externally.
Work-Life-Balance
Used to be good, but the new RTO policy with the WIFI tracking is taking a lot of flexibility and balance away from the employees.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
As mentioned, promotion seems to be rather political. The development budget has also been cut. Performance reviews do not really provide you with a clear path to promotion.
Gehalt/Benefits
The salary and the benefits are good. However, when you consider the workload and the expectations placed on ICs, I would say its rather standard.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
The talent that Personio has managed to hire over the years is incredible. You get to work with smart, driven and (once) motivated people. You can always ask everyone for anything on an IC level and you can build friendships with your colleagues. I feel that especially during these recent changes the team spirit has actually increased more.
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
almost no older colleagues
Vorgesetztenverhalten
Leadership is now micromanagement. The middle managers work more in favour of C-level than their own employees. When problems are flagged, these just get ignored.
Kommunikation
Information is spread everywhere and nowhere at the same time. There is way too much slack noise and information has to be searched for in too many different places. Changes are often just communicated during the All Hands meetings, which are followed by an AMA session, but it often feels like real questions or issues are not addressed or laughed away (like in one of the recent AMAs focused on the new WIFI tracking).
Gleichberechtigung
It strongly feels like decisions around promotions are political and connection based.