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      4.4

      87% would recommend to a friend

      (1,971 total reviews)
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      Alex Bouaziz

      92% approve of CEO

      84% positive business outlook

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      4.6

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.4

      Culture & values

      4.3

      Senior management

      4.3

      Career opportunities

      4.2

      Work/Life balance

      4.2

      Compensation and benefits

      Deel has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,971 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Deel employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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      2K reviews
      1.0
      Mar 17, 2022

      So much potential if they actually cared about staff

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      You get to work with people from all over the world. Remote working is great (but prepare to be expected to work NON-STOP) Unlimited days off (But good luck getting them approved)

      Cons

      Like the other negative reviews on here I’d have to echo the poor processes in place that no one wants to fix, and you get punished and shot down for trying then asked why you don’t take initiative The product is terrible and full of bugs. If you make an attempt to help in this area prepare to be gaslighted. It’s all ego. A lot of the managers should not be in their positions and should not be managing people. There’s clear favouritism and discrimination and the people team do very little to help, just enough to say they did something. Ask them how much effort they’ve put in to hire from minority communities and how poorly they support you if you have a disability. It’s shocking. Managers will also manipulate you into doing what they want and are rude and abrasive. Another reviewer mentioned performance reviews, these are a joke. If you’re not active enough on slack and liking Deels social posts you’ll get told off for this. There is absolutely no career progression or support and while you get told in interviews that you’ll have a regular salary review, it never happens. They’re just lining their own pockets while you burn out. The best thing to really do here is not care and get your pay check. If you care about the work you do then Deel is not for you. The CEO is rude and demanding and if anyone spoke to him in the same way he speaks to you, well, you’d get fired instantly. Although it makes a lot of sense that the managers that get hired are the same as him. “Deel speed” is really just about being forced and pressured to rush through work to get out something that is terrible. And then being punished for how bad it is. Processes are non-existent and no one than can fix them, cares to. Be prepared to fend for yourself unless you’re one of the lucky ones who was hired through management connection and apart of the clique. No research is done on the product and decisions are purely made based on ego of managers. If you want to have any kind of input or voice, this job is not for you. You’re just a mindless puppet who better not speak up or you’ll get told off. Notice on the positive reviews, they’re all staff who haven’t been here that long. I’ve been here almost since the beginning, and it seems the other negative reviewers can say the same. Who would you rather believe?

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      Deel Response
      4y
      First, I am glad you are still here as I know we have made improvements and will continue to make improvements in many areas. Also, this feedback is helpful and will influence many of the projects we have specifically around talent acquisition, values, internal communication, knowledge and learning, and leadership development. Whilst there is much to unpack in this review and it would be challenging to address point by point here, I do invite you to reach out to your manager and/or HR Business Partner directly to share feedback and concerns directly. We hope we can regain your trust to help navigate and understand your perspective better. We also acknowledge that for many of you who are more tenured, specifically hired before July 2021, that your experience is going to be different. You joined a company pre-Series D fundraising, under 100 team members. We are now at 970 team members sitting in 60 countries around the globe in a fully distributed company working in service of our customers and internal team members. To have had this growth in less than 12 months brings significant change to all that we do and we know that managing and supporting through these changes is critical. We care deeply about our people and our customers so please continue to provide feedback and thank you for helping us build the future of work.
      3.0
      Dec 2, 2022

      Honest Review

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Salary is with market and the talent that Deel brings on is fabulous. Lots of exciting opportunities to be a part of. Benefits are fully paid for (yes- health insurance for the US is paid by the company). Unlimited PTO.

      Cons

      “Deel Speed” Deel is very VERY focused on growing the revenue faster than any company has ever done in the past. While yay- that’s good and everyone wants the company to succeed, “Deel Speed” is just not a scalable solution. Leadership has such crazy blinders on to the point that their solution for any problem is throw more people at the problem and tell them to work faster in their silos, then just just say that it’s been solved and move on to the next problem. For any company to be set up for continuous and stable growth, problems must be solved with strategy, collaboration, and time. The founders are the voices behind Deel’s solutioning method and echo it daily- “Deel Speed”. What really sucks about working here is that I know that the environment they’ve created is not scalable and not sustainable for the long term. The worst part is that there is no way anyone can convince the founders and leadership that their methods are flawed, as they are extremely stubborn and tell the world that they’re wrong and they’ll be the first ones to actually make this method work. I believe the only way they’ll learn is when Deel eventually gets driven out of the market by their competitors because Deel is still too busy being inefficient. Sure they may have the best in market product for the price, but a product doesn’t make a company. More leads does not equal long term revenue. They’ve grown too fast for their own good. To elaborate on the stubbornness of the culture, If leadership read my message, I guarantee they’d just say something like “well this person is just lazy/incompetent and not cut out for this job, they can’t handle a fast paced environment” and my response would be. “You are correct in that I cannot keep up with your unrealistic daily expectations and band-aid solution logic, nobody can - that’s why all your strategic people keep quitting. If you decided to take a step back, understand and learn from the problems you’re facing, and then prioritize and plan for strategic efforts to permanently fix these problems - then I could be of better service to you” Classic tale of the tortoise and the hare; except the hare is running so fast while only looking at the ground, then runs straight into a tree, and the tortoise just keeps on movin’ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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      Deel Response
      3y
      Thank you for this review. We in leadership do understand that a long term vision and strategy is critical and we have attempted to share that with you all internally. That said, we have urgent scaling issues to address urgent customer needs that we sometimes have to make a business decision to solve immediately with headcount or solutions that are not our long term solution but rather a solution that allows us to build the long term solution while still meeting the high expectations of our customers. We will find a better way of communicating this internally to ensure perceptions are managed better. I also won't assume that you are not a fit for Deel based on your review without any other information or data about you. I do hope that if you are an active team member that you shared your true perspective in our recent engagement survey as well as you would be expected to actively be working with your manager to solve problems. We have humans on the other end of our products and services so its critical to surface better ideas and solutions to scale. But we will continue to move quickly, that is what start ups do, otherwise our competitive moat is reduced.
      1.0
      Aug 28, 2023

      Not Recomendable

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      - Great co-workers on my specific client-facing team. - Remote work.

      Cons

      - This is a highly toxic culture. One of the values is "Genuine Care" and upper leadership doesn't even display this. Upper leadership is harsh, overly demanding despite our large workload as it is, condescending, and micromanaging. They publicly shame Deel employees and say "we foster open communication and feedback". Good and Great leaders can foster open communication and provide feedback, but in a much more positive way. - Workload is outrageous. It really is unsustainable and exhausting. I understand this is a startup up, but there should also be a line. Upper leadership voice how they love Deel and money over their family. That is so toxic and unhealthy. Deel also is unwilling to hire great talent and compensate appropriately, which leads to turnover and then the work gets pushed onto existing employees. - Lack of diversity and inclusion in upper leadership.

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      Deel Response
      2y
      We’re sorry to hear this; we really appreciate your transparent feedback on your experience with leadership and culture. Our values like "Genuine Care" are guiding values of who we are and who we strive to be. We are still in a startup growth mode, building what we hope to be a remarkable team experience in the near future. It’s feedback like this that helps us improve. We value and appreciate our team members and are committed to creating a great culture and environment for all. We have taken action items from your comments and will bring this back to our leadership and people teams.
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