Highly Consider before taking the job at Personio (DUBLIN) - Anonymous employee Personio Employee Review

2.0
11 Apr 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Unlimited snacks and drinks at the office - Friendly office workers and environment. Great location in the center (but most big enterprises do) - Good/Standard Salary and bonus - Stock vesting

Cons

- The benefit of GYM is useless. You need to pay some extra fees to go to the gym, otherwise, the basic gym benefits only cover online classes on an app. Their gym partner is super far from the center and you need to pay extra (15, 30, 70EUR) to subscribe. - Surprisingly, there is NO phone for employees, not even a sim card. Laptop is not of your choice, some get Mac air some get Mac pro. - The relocation support is unclear and shady. At first, I was told it was 2500 EUR, then when I accepted the job, it turned out 1000 EUR. The package covers basically the hotel when you stay. They will NOT help you to find an apartment or a room, but rather some websites for you to struggle with. - The company culture does NOT nurture REMOTE work, not even remote from Dublin. Internal information from the managers is that they are OFFICE FIRST company. The culture of Personio Flexibility for remote work is to attract and mislead people. - The TRANSPORTATION benefit sucks. You need to purchase a monthly bus subscription of 125 EUR/month. Personio will cover 43.5 EUR out of that to your gross salary, which will be taxed... - Regarding DUBLIN, rent is really high up sky, really a big issue to look for even a room.

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Personio Response
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Hello, thank you for taking the time to leave us feedback! We’re sorry to hear some of our benefits didn’t align with your expectations. We’re focused on providing an excellent people experience, and we know a significant portion of that is the benefits a company provides. You are right, our culture is office-lead but remote friendly. We love the opportunities to come together in our offices, and equally enjoy the flexibility to work remotely up to half of the time – including while traveling outside of your home country. We believe this flexibility is a great compromise and gives our teams the best of both worlds. Many of the benefits are subsidies, as you mentioned, which means that Personio does not cover the entire gym cost, for example, but simply makes it cheaper if using that benefit is of interest to you. We appreciate the opportunity to continue improving, and feedback from former Personios is a great way to do that. If you’d like to continue this conversation, we’d be happy to hear from you. Just send me an email at cassandra.hoermann@personio.de!

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