Most popular features of all HR & Employee Management apps
21 reviewers had the following to say about Personio's features:
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
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
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
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
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
Time
Pros
Absolutely user friendly surface, very easy to start with, cloud based and usable from everywhere, easy to use statistics.
Cons
Shift workers) and missing "Blog-Feature" means individual news-feed not available.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
It gave me as an employee so much transparency and control back as I did not have to have everything done by our HR team.
Cons
Some features are not yet comparable to standalone solution (e.g. the recruiting module) but Personio is shipping improvements and features regularly so that bugs and feature requests are taken into account!
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
It lets me as an employee book my calendar vacations.
Cons
It is ugly, the UX is not well thought. You have to keep asking for help to find where is what. It is expensive for the low quality that it provides.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
easy access to all information of a hr team
Pros
-easy to learn for everyone, -good support from the devoloper -clean interface -good export functinality -possible to create own worklfows
Cons
-list feature must be more simple -recruitment part must more flexible -some fields are without access -creation of templates needs easier steps
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
We have more time to spent in other subjects, no more excel lists and very important.
Pros
It is very easy to use, even if you are not that talented in software/IT, it is very very dynamic and adaptable and the combination in Admininstration and recruiting is perfekt.
Cons
I have to spent more time on it! Maybe one thing: holiday: if there is a termination and I I finish the employment relationship in Personio the paid vacation days are still the same and do not automaticaly reduce.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
One tool for a lot of HRM fields, especially easing of Recruiting and HR administration
Pros
- broad functionality and coverage for a lot of areas in HRM - permanent development and frequent implemention of new functions - German product with legally considered functions
Cons
- sometimes not intuitive enough, especially if you don't use it daily - report function still has some bugs, that make it sometimes kind of useless/not correct enough
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Easy to request vacations.
Cons
Not so easy to find out where my payslips are, as they are under the documents area which is under the personal profile - a bit awkward.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Personio is very easy to use, is improving its functions and features constantly and has a very good customer service team. It is perfect for startup companies
Cons
The reporting section does not work very well, some functions and features are missing, but Personio will improve this section shortly
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Personio is great as it is simple to use and has powerful funcionality.
Pros
The interface is very clean and easy to understand and as an employee it is clear when there are tasks that I need to complete.
Cons
The security of the software is very high and so I often get asked to fill in a security token when I get my password wrong. Not a con per se - just be sure to keep knowledge of your password!
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
easy to use, good for small and mid size companies because it offers a lot of functions and it is easy to handle and organize the employee data etc .
Cons
it is a general solutions, so some features part could be still improved e.g be more detailed
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Helps me hiring the right people and keep track on the recruiting process
Pros
Especially recruiting works perfect
Cons
I think there should be a native app for this solution which has the same quality than the web version
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
It has a decent UI, and most of the times help you to perform the tasks.
Cons
For example, things like email scheduling, report of email-threads, message exchange and interview-reviews are not good, frequently you have to send a message more than once, or you receive duplicated entries on your calendar...
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Makes it easy to schedule holidays and provides a lot of great functionality for the user.
Cons
Takes some time to get used to, but is easily learnable with the great onboarding by the company itself
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Other
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Easy to use, easy to set-up , all relevant information at one spot, tool can be configured to personal needs
Cons
Recruiting can still be a bit more well thought-through, calendar invitation not editable, some kind of CV parsing would be nice
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Pros
On the top of my personio-experiences is the customer service! Really patient, highly customer oriented and super friendly at all times.
Cons
Honestly, there is nothing worth to mention. There are a couple of bugs and usability issues here and there, but most important, you see a young product (and Team) growing and improving from day to day.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
