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kununu Score: 3,9Weiterempfehlung: 71%
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343 Mitarbeiter:innen haben diesen Arbeitgeber mit durchschnittlich 3,9 Punkten auf einer Skala von 1 bis 5 bewertet.

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Personio Payroll Support - jederzeit zu empfehlen

5,0
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Arbeitsatmosphäre

Gute Stimmung

Work-Life-Balance

Jederzeit gerne

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Absolut top

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

Die besten im Team

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Starke Leads

Kommunikation

Gute Kommunikation


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Karriere/Weiterbildung

Gehalt/Benefits

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

Arbeitsbedingungen

Gleichberechtigung

Interessante Aufgaben

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Ambitious company facing massive growing pains

2,6
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Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

In general, Personio has grown extremely fast, which is now leading to significant friction as the company matures and transforms its business, processes, and teams. This phase clearly brings challenges across the organization.

That said, there is a lot of respect for what has been built so far and the scale the company has achieved in a relatively short time.

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Everything already mentioned.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

To improve, the company should focus on creating more stability and clarity. Reducing constant changes and defining clear priorities would help teams stay focused and work more effectively.

Communication and processes need to become more streamlined and transparent, ensuring that all teams operate with the same level of information. Faster and more efficient alignment would better match the company’s ambitions.

Leadership should place greater emphasis on addressing root causes instead of short-term fixes, while also being more mindful of team well-being and mental load. Encouraging a more sustainable way of working would help reduce pressure and attrition.

Finally, creating an environment that allows for strategic work and learning from past mistakes—through more consistency in direction and leadership—would support both employee growth and long-term success.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

The working atmosphere is tense and shaped by frustration. Many employees are overworked, and poor communication and inefficient processes make alignments slow and difficult, often not matching the company’s ambition.

Pressure is high and often feels disconnected from the actual work and product maturity. At the same time, high attrition further increases workload, leaving many people stressed and impacting the overall atmosphere negatively.

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Still good, but declining. What I really find irritating is, that very positive reviews are places by leadership to create a fake impression of the current situation at Personio.

Work-Life-Balance

Maintaining work-life balance requires actively setting personal boundaries to protect your energy and well-being. Despite a two- to three-day office policy, there is a degree of flexibility.

However, the mental load and overall pressure remain significant challenges, making it difficult to sustain a healthy balance.

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Career growth is difficult, as constant changes often leave you in a mode of simply keeping up rather than developing further. Taking a more sustainable and holistic approach to work does support and can even make growth harder to achieve in this environment.

Gehalt/Benefits

Compensation is generally good, but it comes with a high workload and significant mental pressure. Benefits, such as Wellpass, corporate benefits or company pension are offered.

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

A value lived with respect to Personio foundation, yet hard to evaluate the real value of it.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Despite the challenges, the remaining teams make a clear effort to keep morale up. Team spirit is still present and has been generally strong, but it is increasingly affected by the overall situation and ongoing pressures.

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

Not much of them and therefore no space to evaluate this.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Leadership behavior strongly depends on the team. While some direct managers provide support, there are broader challenges at the senior leadership level.

Transformation efforts often focus on quick fixes rather than addressing root causes. There is limited reflection on the organization’s current challenges or the mental strain within teams, which contributes to ongoing attrition and people leaving the company.

Decisions are largely top-down, and due to frequent changes in leadership and direction—especially in areas like account management—there is little continuity or structured learning from past mistakes.

Arbeitsbedingungen

The working conditions reflect many of the challenges mentioned above, particularly in terms of workload, pressure, and constantly changing structures.

On the positive side, the company offers standard perks such as free fruit and drinks, a canteen, and modern equipment, which support day-to-day comfort at work. Also the office is very friendly and modern.

Kommunikation

Communication is challenging due to constant changes, making it difficult to stay up to date. Processes can shift within just a few weeks, creating uncertainty and confusion.

Slack noise is very high, which makes it hard to focus and filter out what’s truly important. At the same time, different teams often operate with varying levels of information, leading to inconsistencies and frustration—especially when interacting with customers.

Gleichberechtigung

Certainly a value lived.

Interessante Aufgaben

Roles can be interesting, especially if you enjoy transformation work and setting up new processes. The environment is complex and intellectually challenging.

However, a lack of clear priorities makes it easy to lose focus. Combined with an intense workload, it often feels like constant firefighting rather than having the space to grow and work strategically.

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Will it be good or will it be bad? Only Personios Management knows.

2,5
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Verbesserungsvorschläge

Actually listen to your employees instead of creating fake Kununu reviews to polish the image of the company.

Get the basics right and lay the foundations before doubling down on new product markets. Lead with clear strategy instead of creating toxic pressure. If this is embraced, the future for Personio could actually look very bright.

Focus on a specific customer profile, but also hear your customers that do not fall into that profile. If you cannot treat them equally, have contingency strategies in place.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

Profitability is important, but there is no alignment between Management and Middle Management and subsequently unrealistic workloads and goals as a consequence of this. As a result, the Account Management team experienced a surge of resignations leaving the ones left stuck in a vicious cycle.

Very little appreciation for the work done and some personnel decisions seem to be made based on politics and likability rather than merit.

There have also been instances where individuals get laid off if they challenge certain decisions.

If you're working on customer-facing teams, customer love is more of a fashion statement rather than a company-wide virtue.

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It's still solid, but for how long?

Work-Life-Balance

You can have a work-life-balance if you apply the 80/20 framework, but if you want to stay on top of everything working extra hours at home is not unusual

Karriere/Weiterbildung

You will get promoted if you deliver a good performance and many employees really deserved their respective promotions, but how performance is measured is one-dimensional

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Most people are really good at what they are doing and heavily empathize with each other, though it is more of a shared mechanism to endure in an otherwise toxic work environment

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

The only person visibly over 40 is the CRO

Vorgesetztenverhalten

They're just passing on the pressure they get from their Managers

Arbeitsbedingungen

Nice office, great coffee, sugar-free soft drinks, a canteen, and occasionally free-food. Also the company invests heavily in AI to make certain processes faster and analyses more accurate, which is a positive motion, but still lacks the strategy behind it so execution suffers.

Kommunikation

Non-existent; processes change at random and all the time without any alignment between different business functions at the expense of the customer experience

Interessante Aufgaben

I do believe Personio Payroll could be a game-changer for most customers, but the product and the market isn't ready yet


Gehalt/Benefits

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

Gleichberechtigung

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European company with the product that delivers value, and still thinking about their employees as humans.

4,5
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Arbeitsatmosphäre

Good culture of sharing and applauding achievements (in public and in private) via slack and on during organisational meetings.

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Yes, I am happy and proud to work here.

Work-Life-Balance

Good work-life balance.

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Many opportunities to grow.

Gehalt/Benefits

No complaints here.

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

Yes, the company is environmentally and socially responsible.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

General company culture encourages good relations between colleagues.

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

Yes, the age profile cuts across all groups.

Arbeitsbedingungen

No complaints here, offices are nice and well supplied.

Kommunikation

Many communication channels and opportunities to learn what other orgs are doing, and also weekly updates from the company leadership on the state of the business.

Gleichberechtigung

I think women (and any other group) are treated equally, but I am a man so it would be better to ask a woman for a good insight.

Interessante Aufgaben

Working independently, improving work for yourself and others is encouraged.


Vorgesetztenverhalten

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Ständige Weiterentwicklung in bestem Teamgefüge

4,5
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FührungskraftHat zum Zeitpunkt der Bewertung im Bereich Marketing / Produktmanagement bei Personio Group SE in München gearbeitet.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

Die Arbeit mit dem Team und den Kolleg*innen ist, was Personio von anderen unterscheidet. Ich liebe das offene Miteinander mit Leuten aus den verschiedensten Teams - regelmäßige Firmenevents und Möglichkeiten sich kennenzulernen gibt es auch genug. Wenn sich unser Marketingteam zum Onsite trifft, fühlt sich das an wie eine Klassenfahrt.

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Im HR-Bereich sind wir die feste Größe und bekommen viel positives Feedback. Die letzten Jahre waren nicht leicht und natürlich färbt das auch aufs Image ab - insgesamt bleibt es aber positiv.

Work-Life-Balance

Es kann schon mal hektisch werden und die Anforderungen sind prinzipiell hoch. Trotzdem habe ich das Gefühl auch die Freiheiten zu haben bspw. Termine wahrzunehmen, flexibel zu arbeiten und das freie Zeiten respektiert werden. Gute Balance, aber hohes Pensum bei allen.

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Aus eigener Erfahrung bietet Personio sehr viele Möglichkeiten für Menschen, die sich weiterentwickeln wollen. Team Leads schaffen Räume und Möglichkeiten zur Weiterbildung und auch der Arbeitsalltag zwingt einen dazu seinen Horizont zu erweitern. Prozentual werden jährlich viele befördert (war überrascht wieviele nach den letzten Zahlen).

Gehalt/Benefits

Insgesamt deutlich überdurchschnittlich, auf allen Ebenen.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Herausragend. Alle arbeiten füreinander, springen für einander ein und supporten sich - mit einer positiven Grundhaltung.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Ich habe auf allen Führungsebenen bisher Wertschätzung und Kritikfähigkeit erlebt. Auch herrscht größtenteils Transparenz zu Entscheidungen und warum bestimmte strategische Richtungen eingeschlagen werden. Hier und da könnte noch mehr Feingefühl in der Kommunikation gut tun.

Kommunikation

Offenes und ehrliches miteinander. Man kann einander kritisieren ohne Angst zu haben, Probleme offen ansprechen, kriegt direktes Feedback (wenn man danach fragt) und fühlt sich gesehen und gewertschätzt.

Interessante Aufgaben

Jede Woche ist anders, das ganze Unternehmen entwickelt sich nach wie vor in einer krassen Geschwindigkeit. Für jemanden, der sich schnell entwickeln und viel lernen will, eine perfekte Umgebung.


Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

Arbeitsbedingungen

Gleichberechtigung

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A self-destructive account management department due to senior leadership, to the detriment of loyal employees.

1,3
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Team cohesion is strong, as shared struggles tend to create a sense of solidarity among colleagues.

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What makes this employer especially poor is the absence of real communication and the constant stream of gut-driven decisions. Upper management, particularly within the sales organization, appears to act out of ego rather than competence. Most people seem far more concerned with their own career progression than with what would actually help the team or move the company forward.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

The employer should place much more focus on its people again. Right now, profitability appears to come before everything else, which is why I would not recommend this company to prospective applicants.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

The working atmosphere is heavily shaped by pressure, KPIs, and unrealistic, unachievable targets.

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The company’s external image is likely still positive, which encourages many people to apply. However, if you are looking for a secure job, this is not the place to join, as regular layoffs are common and often impact employees during their probation period.

Work-Life-Balance

Work-life balance exists, but mainly because of the lack of effective Account Management leadership and structure. People seem to come and go as they please — some start at nine and leave at ten, while others show up around lunch and leave again by 2 p.m. In that sense, work-life balance depends entirely on how you define it, because there is very little accountability.

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Career growth appears to be driven more by politics and pleasing the right people than by actual performance in the Account Management Department. Hard work alone is rarely rewarded, and the professional development budget has been cut to the point that it essentially no longer exists.

Gehalt/Benefits

Compensation and benefits have been cut significantly. Salary bands in Account Management are no longer being adjusted, overall pay is below market level, and promotions often come with only a higher bonus target rather than an increase in base salary — which is then presented as a pay raise.

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

It is difficult to make a fair assessment in this area, as related initiatives and efforts appear to have been cut.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

There is a strong sense of solidarity among colleagues, as shared struggles tend to bring people together.

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

This is difficult to assess, as the workforce consists almost entirely of young professionals and entry-level employees.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Many of the Account Management leaders are still very young and lack real leadership experience. As a result, there is often a tendency toward micromanagement instead of effective leadership. At the same time, genuine coaching and day-to-day support are largely missing.

Arbeitsbedingungen

Working conditions are affected by outdated office equipment, while benefits are continuously being reduced.

Kommunikation

Unfortunately, most information is first spread through rumors rather than official communication. There always seems to be a leak within leadership, and ongoing changes are often known informally long before they are communicated properly, sometimes only becoming official a week later - especially in the Account Management Department.

Gleichberechtigung

No clear statement can be made regarding equality.

Interessante Aufgaben

The role of the Account Manager is challenging, but not in a positive way. The day-to-day work often feels overwhelming, with too much to handle at once and frequent frustration when dealing with difficult customers.

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Poor leadership and a rapidly declining culture in Account Management

1,9
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They offer a lot of free soft drinks and coffee.

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Over the past six months, leadership in Account Management has, in my experience, seriously damaged a function that is critical to the business. Instead of addressing recurring issues with clear prioritization and consistent execution, many problems remain unresolved and there is little visible improvement.

The result has been a steady increase in resignations, with colleagues leaving regularly. Team morale is low, and it has become common to hear ongoing conversations about who will leave next and what a healthier employer environment could look like. It is frustrating to watch a formerly important and capable department decline because of weak management practices and a lack of accountability.

Another challenge is how leadership roles are filled. From what I have seen, some people are promoted into lead positions without the experience required to manage and develop a customer facing retention function effectively. This creates confusion, inconsistent decision making, and further reduces trust.

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Other companies hiring the top performer

Gehalt/Benefits

good because its saas

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

not existing

Vorgesetztenverhalten

n/a


Arbeitsatmosphäre

Work-Life-Balance

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Arbeitsbedingungen

Kommunikation

Gleichberechtigung

Interessante Aufgaben

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Disappointing & chaotic

1,5
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Arbeitsatmosphäre

Who doesn't love a challenge - and it sure is challenging to stay up to date with rushed product updates, outdated documentation that nobody owns, ever changing priorities and exploding slack channels.

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The image is slowly crumbling (thankfully) as integrations and add ons fail

Kollegenzusammenhalt

If you're luck you find a few that aren't too busy and then you really have to hold onto them! Well, until you or they are laid off or quit.

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

Who is left?

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Managers like to ignore known issues - even if they're brought to them by several team members

Arbeitsbedingungen

Outdated and broken furniture. No ergonomic options unless you pay for them yourself. But let's return to the office...

Kommunikation

Keeping up with the Slack Channels - more drama than the Kardashians and somehow even more confusing.


Work-Life-Balance

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Gehalt/Benefits

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

Gleichberechtigung

Interessante Aufgaben

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There is always room for improvement but not much!

4,4
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Once you prove yourself at Personio, you have built skills and developed in a way that sets you up for a great career elsewhere in the software space and beyond. A fascinating amount of the people that have left Personio went on to become entrepreneurs and others were headhunted or hired to companies like Google, Salesforce or other big players, so truly no bad outlooks for anyone who makes it here.

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While a lot of change is normal in a fast-paced company and environment, the communication and change management is something that can be improved, meaning that sometimes changes are quite short-notice and not timed super well.

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Personio has a really strong brand and receives a lot of recognition which can be felt from headhunters and other companies that are chasing many of our talents.

Work-Life-Balance

There are of course many tasks and there is practically no boring or slow day, but Personio offers a lot of trust in how and where you work as long as your results good in the end.

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

Really high consciousness even to the highest management level when it comes to reviewing how we can be environmentally and socially as sustainable as possible. A great example is the Personio Foundation, which is not something I have seen with many companies.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

So many young, ambitious and kind people its actually unreal. You could meet anyone in a Personio office and chances are 95% that they will be really competent at what they are doing and really really kind.

Arbeitsbedingungen

Nice office spaces, really good equipment and tools to allow for productive and fast processes.

Interessante Aufgaben

Roles are frequently reviewed and working for a German or European Unicorn on a path to becoming a category leader is very fulfilling.


Arbeitsatmosphäre

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Gehalt/Benefits

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Kommunikation

Gleichberechtigung

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Choose your own adventure: Coast or Cry

2,5
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If this reads as vaguely as an exec AMA or your last performance review at Personio, blame the culture - it's infectious.

You get to learn endurance in chaos, tolerance for absurdity, and how to smile through compounding debt (tech and emotional).

It's great for early-career folks that want to build resilience via trauma bonds. For mid/senior professionals wanting pay, progress, and sanity? Run - better gigs await.

Personio has a knack for turning everyday chaos into a team-building exercise. Your immediate colleagues? They're absolute gems. Smart, hilarious, and always ready to share a virtual eye-roll during yet another surprise meeting.

It's like being in a foxhole with the best squad; you bond over dodging curveballs and celebrating small wins, like finally getting that one bug fixed before lunch.

Plus, if you're into personal development via trial-by-fire, this place is a goldmine. You'll master the art of adapting to shifting sands, all while honing your skills in diplomatic Slack messages.

And hey, the coffee's not bad, free fuel for those "just one more ticket" sessions.

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Oh boy, buckle up. The office has this lingering fog of "what's next?" that could rival a bad horror movie.

Meetings often kick off with a collective sigh about the latest big idea from upstairs, like mandating more office time when half the team is scattered across continents. It's gone from that fresh startup buzz to something more like a perpetual group chat about job listings.

Cross-team work? Picture a relay race where everyone drops the baton on purpose. Blame bounces around faster than a ping-pong ball. And don't get me started on the reorganizations. Following the frequent reorgs, my org chart looks like it was drawn by a caffeinated squirrel.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

Halt the reorg carousel: Four restructures in five years, plus multiple layoff waves. We're humans, not Lego pieces. Pick a structure and stick to it.

Nuke the tech debt: Our codebases are a comical creation of duct tape and half-migrations; every "simplification" spawns more monsters. Engineering needs a real plan, not vibes.

Pay like you mean it: LARPing as MAANG? Then cough up MAANG-level comp. Current salaries are "okay" at best, especially for the burnout tax on people that move things.

Cut the AMA riddles: When asked about IPO delays, layoffs and RTO mandates, execs serve buzzword salads. Give straight answers. Or at least pretend to.

End strategy whiplash: Six-month pivots mean nothing finishes; projects rot half-done while we chase the next shiny distraction.

Require manager expertise: No more non-tech bosses grading SWE performance like it's abstract art. I've had zero-SWE managers fumbling reviews—hilarious, if it weren't my career.

Ban vibe-coding: Non-devs dreaming up "solutions" with LLMs, Lovable and Vercel that ignore physics? Engineers waste half their time translating mystical tales into code.

Tone down mandtory AI usage: It's turned juniors into copy-paste factories, multiplying mediocrity faster than rabbits.

Own the layoffs: Stop euphemisms like "restructuring for skills" - it's cost-cutting for that elusive IPO.

Fix the review horoscope: Story points are fiction, goals shift like sand. It's a demoralizing circus where visibility trumps actual work.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

Flashback to 2020: electric optimism. Cut to 2025: existential dread with a side of free snacks. Lunch chats are basically group therapy for "am I next?" paranoia. The office feels like a fancy prison where everyone's plotting their parole.

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Valued at billions thanks to our hefty funding rounds, we're chasing that unicorn glow. But the IPO chatter? Keeps getting kicked down the road.

Our customers publically complain about our bugs and outages, yet we're cranking out new features like it's a race. Building HR tools while treating staff like puzzle pieces in a never-ending game? Ironic, isn't it?

Work-Life-Balance

Depending on your work attitude, this could be 5 stars or 2 stars.

You can totally have Slack off and coast if that's your jam. Some folks have turned it into an art form, gliding through with minimal effort, some of which even made it into higher ranks during our frequent reorgs.

But if you dare to excel? Buckle up for long weeks as your new normal, with rewards that feel more like a pat on the back than a real boost. Choose wisely: easy mode or hard mode, but don't expect the scales to balance evenly.

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Paths exist, but they're more maze than highway. L4 members might climb to higher levels, but once there? Stagnation city, unless a reorg shakes things up (not always for the better). External hires often snag the shiny Senior/Staff/Lead roles, leaving internals dancing for attention.

Pro tip: If you're offered an L5+ role in a different team, make sure it's not a broken team who's manager just fled the country.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Intra-team: gold-star humans, collaborating through hellfire.
Cross-team: straight-up blame-laundering via dependencies. When exec-suite scrutiny hits, it's every department for itself - beautifully disastrous.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Our team finally landed a solid EM. Someone who actually codes, designs, and debugs like a pro. A miracle!

But the journey? Four reporting changes in five years, evaluations from folks who'd faint at a stack trace, and feedback as vague as a fortune cookie. "Be more visible" is the mantra, but good luck decoding it. Should I juggle in stand-ups or start a TikTok channel?

Arbeitsbedingungen

It's the perfect storm of startup grit and corporate bureaucracy, minus the upsides. The tech stack's a tangled web of legacy and half-done migrations, where "simplifying" somehow complicates everything.

High performers juggle multiple roles amid panic mode, questioning their sanity daily.

High turnover at the top means visions change like weather, leaving us shipping quick wins over solid solutions. Metrics? Often arbitrary. Goals are fuzzy. It's demoralizing, but hey, at least it's character-building.

Kommunikation

Buried in 50+ Slack channels? Check. My strategy: pray for a ping or eavesdrop in meetings.

Personio's executives do an objectively decent job and communicating change in a timely, transparent manner.

But when it comes to the juicy questions, like RTO mandates, IPO or long-term vision, the responses are polished to the point of slippery.

It's professional, sure, but often leaves you piecing things together, leading to a high amount of rumours and gossip. It's like my performance reviews: vague enough to gaslight you into thinking you're the problem.

Gehalt/Benefits

The pay is adequate. Not setting the world on fire, but surprisingly more competitive than other German companies.

The benefits stick to the basics. Legal minimums with a few extras in short.

For the stress? You could do better elsewhere, especially if you're gunning for that big-tech vibe without the matching perks.

Interessante Aufgaben

2020: creative freedom!

2025: ticket drone, PR bot, reality-checker for fantasies created by LLMs. The strategy flips every six months, dooming projects to half-baked graves.

Embracing and in parts requiring AI for work amplifies slop from questionable hires. As one soul put it: principals wasting time on needle-non-moving silliness. Comical, if it weren't soul-crushing.

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Wir setzen auf Transparenz

So verdient kununu Geld.

Fragen zu Bewertungen und Gehältern

  • Basierend auf 805 Erfahrungen von aktuellen und ehemaligen Mitarbeiter:innen wird Personio durchschnittlich mit 4 von 5 Punkten bewertet. Dieser Wert liegt unter dem Durchschnitt der Branche Internet (4,1 Punkte). 40% der Bewertenden würden Personio als Arbeitgeber weiterempfehlen.
  • Ausgehend von 805 Bewertungen gefallen die Faktoren Kollegenzusammenhalt, Gleichberechtigung und Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein den Mitarbeiter:innen am besten an dem Unternehmen.
  • Neben positivem Feedback haben Mitarbeiter:innen auch Verbesserungsvorschläge für den Arbeitgeber. Ausgehend von 805 Bewertungen sind Mitarbeiter:innen der Meinung, dass sich Personio als Arbeitgeber vor allem im Bereich Kommunikation noch verbessern kann.