The hiring process at Deel takes an average of 5 days when considering 2 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Backend Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 5 days), whereas Backend Engineer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 5 days).
I applied online. I interviewed at Deel in Jul 2024
Interview
I had an initial 30 minute interview with a recruiter at Deel that went well. The recruiter was kind, asked relevant screening questions, and answered my questions. As a next step, I was provided a calendar link to select time to meet with the Hiring Manager for 30 minutes. I did quite a bit of preparation going into this call, reviewing the sales managers LinkedIn (his posts and his comments) as he was very active on there. Upon joining the call, I could immediately tell that he was not prepared. In fact, one of the first things he said to me was "I'm sorry I'm not very prepared, we had SKO last week" which immediately rubbed me the wrong way. As a manager who posts on LI about interviewees needing to treat interviews like they would a sales call and "closing them", he surely didn't take his own advice. I wouldn't go into a sales call and start it with "I'm not prepared". As an AE, you make the time to get prepared, and if you absolutely can't, then you ask to reschedule to ensure nobody is wasting their time. The first question he asked me was if I was interviewing anywhere else and where. I shared a couple with him and he immediately was telling me to go with one company over the other "if I were him". This was really strange. We hadn't discussed anything about Deel yet or my background and he seemed to already be pushing me away. This really threw me off. He went on to ask me to share my background/experience with him. He asked what my quota was (they have 1 million dollar quota minimum) and length of sales cycle. That's all he seemed to care about. He didn't ask any other questions or specifics (didn't ask about sales approach, challenges, any won deals or lost deals, etc.) As I was sharing my experience, he was stretching and twisting in his chair and appeared to be completely uninterested in anything I had to say and not really paying attention. The entire interview just felt unprofessional and off. I was left with a very bad taste in my mouth for the company and more specifically, this manager. Needless to say, I didn't get moved on to the next round but had that invitation been opened, I would have declined. I am sure the company and product are outstanding, but I knew I would not want to work under this leadership.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Are you interviewing any where else?
What was your quota?
How long were the sales cycles?
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The Deel Team
It was okay. Asked me a few questions and overall was not hard questions. The interviewer was nice. Came in and gave me a coffee, asked me questions aboit my past and where I want to be.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Deel in Mar 2024
Interview
Recruiter screen, take-home task, technical screen, behavioural interview.
The take-home task was long, the basic problems can be solved in 3-5 hours, but doing only this will definitely not get you moving to the next stage. So you have to spend at least 8-12 hours on this.
During the tech stage, they discuss the task and your solution and ask questions about things like indexes and concurrency.
The cultural interview will focus on your strengths and weaknesses. If you are honest about this, you will be rejected. You need to make your weakness sound like strengths to succeed here, so you have to lie or you should mention something silly.
Communication from the recruiter was good throughout.
Due to the amount of time required to make it through the process, especially for the take-home task I would STRONGLY ADVISE AGAINST interviewing here unless you have time to burn.
If you check LinkedIn, you can see that most of their engineers are in India and Latin America, so if you are looking for a European salary, you are up against thousands of underpaid competitors from these countries.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions about the drawbacks of indexes, optimising complex SQL queries, handling concurrent requests. Cultural questions focused on your strengths and weaknesses with examples.