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      AVOID PERSONIO AT ALL COST - Sales Development Representative (SDR) Personio Employee Review

      1.0
      20 Mar 2023
      Sales development representative (sdr)
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Awesome and very talented colleagues, good offices full of snacks and beautiful views, nice benefits

      Cons

      Where to start... Too much micromanagement, meaningless KPIs, almost unachievable targets (and obviously the problem is not that they are too high and unrealistic, but that you are not good enough and don't know how to do your job). Lack of communication and absolutely no transparency (which happens to be one of their operating principles: "We share all relevant information and communicate the reasons behind our decisions", this is a complete lie and many decisions are taken without communicating the reason behind them). There is no career plan within Personio and there is a lot of external recruitment instead of opting for internal talent. Very clear favoritisms and biased decisions. Depending on who you are and how you get along with management your actions will have different consequences. In a nutshell, avoid Personio, definitely not the best place to work and pursue a career in sales, except if you work for the German market.

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      Personio Response
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      Hello, thank you for your feedback. We’re sorry to hear that your experience at Personio wasn’t always great. We have heard some of the points that you’re speaking to before and want you to know that we are ~~~~taking them seriously, and are working on improving this experience for our Personios. This includes training our leaders in a specifically designed framework, reiterating what and how we communicate topics, and also a lot of work to increase the engagement and success of our Sales teams. As always, we appreciate the opportunity to continue improving our people experience and value your feedback for that. If you wish to discuss it in more detail, please feel free to reach out to me at Cassandra.Hoermann@personio.de!

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      5.0
      14 Oct 2025
      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      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
      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      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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