A bumpy ride towards our ambitious product vision - Product Manager Personio Employee Review

4.0
Jan 30, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

- Smart and fun colleagues, who are open to collaboration across different product areas and departments. - Engaged leadership who care about the details of customer experiences. - Inspiring product vision and a problem that's really worth solving. - People generally show each other respect, and also call others out when they don't show it. - Flexible working arrangements. Regular in-person meet ups are encouraged and financed for teams.

Cons

- Changing priorities means exciting career opportunities can vanish into thin air. - We're lacking a gender balance in many product areas, especially in engineering. Industry-wide problem but I expect better from a top tech company. - Product and design decision making has felt chaotic recently, and takes too long. - Super competitive market drives hard choices around people and creates a tense atmosphere.

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5.0
Oct 14, 2025
Recommend
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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
Oct 30, 2025
Recommend
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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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