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25 reviewers had the following to say about Personio's features:
It is a great tool if you are looking for a one-stop solution to deal with your HR IT needs. Helps you a lot to stay in compliance with process frameworks and legal restrictions. Great support.
Pros
Holistic HR solution (no need to transfer data from one system to another) Very good customer support Can be set up as easy-to-use self-service platform for employees Ensures process (e.g.
Cons
Report section can be improved on the recruiting side Edge-cases in user rights management need to be improved UI/UX is better than traditional software but can still be refined
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
- Interface - Flexibility - Different roles - Automatization
Cons
- Reporting (Recruiting KPIs, Self designed reports) - Payroll
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
One main point to mention about this platform was the very appealing introduction we received as well as the following onboarding. Especially as a small company with not much experience in HR recruiting, the software helped us to improve our HR processes tremendously.
Pros
Especially the integration of self service in combination with absence management has been a huge time saver for us.
Cons
Sometimes input fields seem inconsistent with their datatypes (especially Date and Number fields) but the team of Personio seems ambitious to resolved reported issues as soon as possible. UI could be nicer but it is still a business product.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Time saver and faster work flow, data protection, faster administration of employee data
Pros
Easy to use for employees; easy, no frill design, good configuration possibilities; improvement ideas are always forwarded to the Product team and, if possible, implemented quickly
Cons
Sometimes very long loading times; reports function not ideal (can be fixed with work arounds but needs extra time)
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
We're now employing around 100 employees - and I'm only working 25 hours per week - Personio makes it possible!
Pros
- flexibility - Very competent and fast customer support - easy to learn - intuitive - combines the whole employee life cycle - from recruiting to offboarding - in one platform - Reports and Exports enable fast analyses - interface to payroll Providers make the payroll really easy to handle
Cons
- some reports don't work properly - but customer service always fixes problems very fast
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
We are currently using personio to file all employee data, track onboarding and absence periods.
Pros
Easy implementation Continuous improvement of the most important HR functionalities Good reports Very friendly and quick customer support
Cons
FTE report grouped by Cost Center would be very helpful
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Saves LOTs of time. No need for different tools.
Pros
- Covers almost ALL aspects of HR -- recruitment (complete ATS system) -- hr administration: -- onboarding, offboarding, documents, absences, time tracking, performance management (basic), rights & role management, user self service, approval settings, etc
Cons
- needs some time to get to know all features - UX is getting better, but not the strong suit of personio - performance management rather basic
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
The system is easily customizable, fields can be generated quickly, workflows edited, and permissions & rules created within minutes.
Cons
Few minor bugs from timt to time, though these are fixed quickly. Recruiting solution only lets you post on german jobsites.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Employee information, employee development, recruiting etc.
Pros
The recruiting section gives a good overview of your job ads and all incoming applications and the applicants. Personio gives very good support to the administrator and has many helpful videos and documents to explain the software.
Cons
It's not always easy to find all the features and it takes some time to understand the settings.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
- Self service - Interface - Usability - Integration of the external payroll - Customer Service
Cons
- Report section is not very detailed and not very accurate - Vacation calculation is not functioning very well, the set up of the vacation model is quite tricky - Some system attribute-fields are none-customisable
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Of people. working and absence periods, as well as employee growth and fluctuations and other great tools for tracking performance- on an individual basis, as well as for the entire business.
Pros
Easy to use, very intuitive and self explanatory.
Cons
Cannot currently be linked to Datev, a software for calculating wages.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
We are very happy with the performance of the system and are confident missing functionality will be developed by Personio within the next months (app etc.).
Pros
The software is very intuitive, has a very attractive design and makes it fun to use it.
Cons
In some aspects the software is perfectly designed for a designated HR manager - message configuration options should be optimised for small start-ups with multi-functional staff - but nothing that could not be "solved" with a bit of trickyness ;).
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
We really managed to establish the foundation of HR compliance thanks to Personio. A huge step forward in terms of organizational growth.
Pros
It allows a lot of good self-service workflow steps to make life in HR much easier.
Cons
A bit weak on the reporting side, especially when it comes to the recruiting function.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
We managed as a startup to setup HR processes for the first time, even with limited resources.
Pros
- implementation process quality - saving a lot of HR & team resources - digital documentation of all HR processes (recruiting, sick days, holidays..) - improving employee retention
Cons
- no compelling usability - UI/UX not state of the art and very "German" - no relevant improvements over time
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Especially to emphasize is the very friendly customer service. Personio takes care of the needs and problems and tries to improve continuously.
Pros
From recruiting-side, a big plus is that you can easily customize the evaluation forms.
Cons
For the recruiting area, there is still some room for improvement, for example, the integration with outlook.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
It is a very good experience.
Pros
The Overall possibilities of Recruiting, onboarding/ offboarding, Management of data
Cons
Maybe it is a Little bit complex in Setting up
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
The software has also been a great help to our employees, who can take care of their HR tasks much easier now, as well as our team leaders and managers, who now have a better way of administrating and supervising their team and making sure all tasks are taken care of.
Pros
Creating and publishing job ads, managing applications and communicating with applicants has never been so easy, and is enabling us to manage our recruiting workflows in a way that is sure to leave a positive impression on applicants.
Cons
Since we are a global company, our aim is to roll out Personio internationally to all our subsidiaries in different countries around the world. In this regard, we are doing a certain amount of pioneer work, as the system is not yet completely perfected for international use and some features or special configurations are not yet part of the software. Therefore, we need to align the requirements of our international subsidiaries with the features currently available in the software and, in some cases, find workarounds. Personio has provided great support in this process and has been able to provide solutions to the vast majority of topics we dealt with.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
In the end, it just became a database to store employee information.
Pros
-pretty design -comprehensive onboarding -friendly support team
Cons
-missing sanity checks -convoluted layout -not customisable enough
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
vacation managment The way in which the vacation entitlement was built and the transparency with which it is structured is very good, even with very frequently changing working time models. recruiting & management of applicants
Pros
The on-boarding for the employees was quite easy, it´s almost self-explained.
Cons
Besides there should be offered more API´s and an integrated shift plan system.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Actually, as a fast-growing company 2 years ago, we were just looking for a recruiting solution and found Personio.
Pros
Automatisation of the Recruiting Process Highly efficient
Cons
No Datev interface Many of our suggestions were received as feature requests, without feedback and without implementation Many new developments, especially in recruiting, have not led to an improvement, but have taken the clarity
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Personio has competent employees that take their time to adapt to your needs.
Pros
The design as well as structure / set up.
Cons
As there are so many options, it does take a moment or two to get your head around the complexity.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
I love the customer service of this company.
Pros
Personio is easy to use and the user interface can be understood intuitively.
Cons
Compared to other ATS, Personio does not offer a link to LinkedIn, which makes recruiting activities more complex.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Furthermore it gives our team members a voice and makes it easy for them to navigate the administrative hr jungle by having a one-stop-shop for all their needs, too.
Pros
Covers all the important bases in terms of functionality: - Employee File - Salary Administration - Team Calendar - Attendance & Absence management The menu is intuitive and compared to other solutions it does a great job of making navigation easy.
Cons
It takes a while to understand how it all works together, but that is to be expected by a software that brings together that many functions.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
It requires relatively little to no instruction effort for the employees. We have only adapted the presentation of Personio and handed it over to the employees and this works well.
Pros
Good and fast customer service. All inquiries are answered within 24 hours (weekdays) and 80% of inquiries are resolved within 24 hours.
Cons
There are newer reports, especially in recruiting, where the figures are not correct.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
