Deel reviews

Literally everything. Nothing positive about this place. The culture is beyond toxic, they play favorites with their account executives. This is the only sales organization that I’ve been a part of that doesn’t evenly distribute leads among their reps. It is not a fair round robin of inbound leads; instead, they give their top reps 20 inbounds a week and their least favorite reps 5 inbounds a week. The managers don’t know what they’re doing. They have no experience being managers, or they have experience being managers and don’t know the Deel product well at all so they’re actually the least helpful people ever and don’t even help you develop your sales acumen. The management here lies and denies every concern that is ever brought to their attention and couldn’t care less about their employees. They mass hire and mass fire people with no regard for how it affects their employees’ lives. They also keep bringing on new products to sell with no training on how to sell them and they just throw you into the deep end and expect you to succeed somehow. Everyone’s mental health here is absolutely deteriorating, and the only reason any reps are still there is because they are willing to sacrifice their mental health so their options can vest. Upper management is beyond toxic here - they pretend like they care and like they’re listening, but they don’t care about you and fired so many people last year with no warning and no PIP. Absolutely awful toxic culture. Avoid this place at all costs.

Could write a book about this. But to be clear, everything here has been shared multiple times with various teams inside the company so Deel could improve but no one really cared... it's better to look successful and caring on the outside but to disregard many concerns on the inside of the company. I'm not the only one, many employees complain about many things and it's not rare to see people join and leave after a few weeks/months. Again I get it, it's a startup, it's growing extremely fast, it's good for certain people in the company but at what cost? See below: - Salary isn't fair and depends on location. So better move to San Francisco and after getting hired move to a cheap location. Even a little kid would see that the logic behind salaries doesn't make sense and isn't fair. Someone doing the same job who joins 2 years after you might get a higher salary because he lives somewhere else... seems fair. - If you didn't get stock options then maybe it would be better to work in a factory cause the salary is probably higher and has more structure. But hey you get to work remotely... - no structure... everything is on Notion. If you don't know something, go and find it yourself cause everyone expects you to know everything on Notion by heart. - processes, rules, information changes daily/weekly with tons of useless slack channels, tags, info on Notion. (again it's normal, being remote and growing fast to deliver information to everyone. But we don't have to like it and nothing is improving) - Joined pretty early, saw Deel as a family, worked many hours during the night for a year, went above and beyond for every metric there is, and thought working hard will get me the promotion but it's not true. No one cares... You have to fight for yourself constantly, promote yourself and make yourself likable. - Everything is manual. It looks like it's automated from the outside but you have to do essential tasks manually every day even after reporting it for more than a year. - no wonder Trustpilot reviews are higher than glassdoor reviews. Glassdoor's rating looks fine NOW but if you can, check the total rating from 1-2 years ago. Many positive Glassdoor reviews have been given by employees who have been at Deel for less than 6 months, it's rare to see a good review of someone who worked +1 year, also because the majority almost 700 of 800 employees have been hired in the last year. - Benefits on the job board are a joke. - Stock options aren't included if you don't ask for them explicitly - Ego, ego, ego... The majority of execs behave as if everyone is their slaves and they're the rulers of their kingdom. Some execs are fair and genuine but the culture is toxic. No wonder so many employees left from various teams. - A lot of things are being done to look professional like a performance review but then nothing happens after the review... It's something you've heard various times so what's the point of a review. - no clear career path - "just keep pushing and if you ever complain we will see and probably disagree" - Getting promoted doesn't depend on performance, make yourself likable, talk constantly on slack even if it's not valuable and make the life of your manager easy, and then maybe you get a chance. - You have to be online 24/7 and answer instantly. - Giving neutral feedback about any bad or negative processes doesn't work and backfires... which is why this review won't help Deel either because ego is higher than the willingness to improve. That's why everyone just works their hours, they only see Deel as a company they get money in exchange for their work and that's it. If you're lucky and have some colleagues in your city you can make friends and it feels a bit better but ask anyone about these points and 80% will agree. I could write many many more points here and more specific examples but these are more general points that might help everyone to see how it is internally at Deel.