Very chaotic place to work - Anonymous employee Personio Employee Review

1.0
Aug 31, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is ok Some nice colleagues

Cons

Personio is a very chaotic place to work. There are constant mixed messages from leadership and little strategy. As soon as you start working on something the priorities change so a lot of work is wasted. - The targets are impossible to reach outside of Germany - The product does not fit any markets outside of Germany. The product also has a poor UI compared to competitors and has not advanced much - People managers have little training or experience - While culture is touted as being strong, I found this to be a lie and there was little positive about the culture. Based on recent employee surveys the culture seems to have turned toxic. - Very junior colleagues with too much responsibility thrust upon them so they fail - A lot of turnover, particularly in sales - There is real fear about competitors, and a desire to try and copy what they are doing, especially the US ones.

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Personio Response
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Hello, thank you for taking the time to provide feedback. Personio is currently going through a period of tremendous growth. Our teams are expanding, processes are evolving, and with that our customer support services and product offering is being extended as well. All to make sure we can keep exceeding customer expectations. We’re aware that with all of that growth, comes a bit of ambiguity and it can feel chaotic at times. But this also gives us the opportunity to learn and grow every day, which is exactly what we want to be doing at our stage of business. Nonetheless, we always want to enable our teams to do their best work, and we are already working to implement new and different training and adding to our processes that are already in place – both for our leaders and for Personios throughout the Sales team. Leadership is also continually working to evolve our go to market strategy and how we execute on it, collaborating across the company to ensure strong execution. If you’d like, we’d be happy to hear more about your experience and how we can continue to improve. Feel free to reach out at glassdoor@personio.de Best regards, Clare

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