Personio reviews about "bonus"

- A lot of competing priorities - Inability to integrate many tools - A lot of departments work in silo. PTech can often feel like a separate company - You need to be comfortable working with much ambiguity - Tenured employees and new joiners don't always see eye to eye

Toxic culture. Ever-changing priorities. Incompetent middle managers who don’t care about their teams. Senior leaders are full of corporate speak and no real accountability or responsibility for outcomes or peoples’ wellbeing. Extremely toxic culture that seems more interested in satisfying shareholders at the expense of the product, customers and employees. One of the worst companies I’ve ever worked for hands down.

- The Product and Engineering department has had an unhealthy scale-up over the last 6 months by hiring new engineering managers, senior - staff engineers, product managers, and other executives. The Personio ‘culture’ can no longer be experienced because of this unhealthy ‘hyper-growth’, especially in places where entire new teams were just hired with little to no representation of tenured employees and without onboarding on the product and processes. - Choosing not to promote from within and not having tenured employees to lead these new teams has caused the new decision makers (e.g. product managers, product designers, product experts, etc.) to behave like the blind leading the blind - where everyone wants to leave their mark and pass probation without knowing about the effects of their decisions. - Team leadership has not been appropriately vetted during the interview process, and continuous feedback during the probation process is no longer practiced especially for team management (i.e. engineering managers, product managers, and product designers). - Constantly changing priorities on a company level (lately every 6 months, sometimes quarterly) makes it next to impossible to complete an initiative in product teams which becomes negative during performance evaluations through no fault of your own. These ever-changing priorities cause constant re-estimations every few months where engineers pause delivery and focus on discovery and estimations - often resulting in complete scrap and rework. - There is a lot of friction among teams, especially because many mid-senior leaders are new and want things done their way without proper onboarding on the product or already established processes. - New managers (in both product and engineering) don’t seem to understand the complexity of the product offering and the engineering that goes into it, often asking developers to reduce estimates and deciding on team priorities and product direction without proper research and understanding the consequences. - Promotions are few and far apart for tenured employees, no proper career ladder is available and there is no transparency in the process or guidance about objectives - many believe that the promotion case is left to the whim of the engineering manager. - There is no financial motivation outside the base salary - although virtual shares are given it's unclear when the next share buy-back would happen (initially promised once a year, now communicated as tied to a seed round - when the next seed round will happen is unclear). Furthermore, there is no bonus offering and annual salary increments are laughable for a company of this scale.

Only 27 paid vacation, no annual bonus.

Benefits are not on par with other tech companies. No bonus unless you are in sales you get commission but no bonus in other areas. They offer stock but its basically monopoly money as the shares are virtual shares at the moment and I cannot see them going IPO anytime soon. Immature management, there are some people who should not be managing teams, they have senior titles but if it was another company they would not get the same title. No salary increases this year No room for any career progression The company had potential but I feel it's gone downhill a lot in the last 2 years, not sure the future of Personio