AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL - Payroll Team Lead Deel Employee Review

1.0
Feb 27, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Deel growth but currently it is a torture place now. Been here for 4 years and it was good while it lasted.

Cons

Deel growth has been a nightmare for everyone. Reviews are fake on glassdoor, do not trust it. They also underpay people and get cheap labour. Leadership will do anything it takes to make their company great including fire people and create a big gap in process which then they expect you to sort out without a single warning. They will have multiple changes coming up every other day but changes are very often crap and makes team lives worser than it is but will not get more head count. You will also be expected to do your job, do other people's jobs when they get fired and then do all these extra ad hoc tasks they call projects in the name of making our life easier but you will end up choking in this chaos called Deel. Ceo and Leadership wants everything fast fast fast to the point you will lose your mind and peace and hate everything. You will meet teams who are constantly blaming each other, not taking ownership, does not understand what they need to do and you have a lot of people constantly being very rude to you because they are so busy and they are hating their jobs

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5.0
May 13, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great management and nice people in the company.

Cons

no cons really but if I have to say one thing, it would be 401K can be higher to match.

2.0
May 25, 2026
Anonymous contractor
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Fully remote - Mostly nice and talented people, you can learn a bunch and the atmosphere is good in the beginning - Once you realize you're not ever getting a raise you can get by doing bare minimum - You can write the ceo on slack and he will respond, which is actually insane considering its such a huge company

Cons

- Everyone is underpaid, even the senior directors. They present employee equity as extra compensation, but make it very difficult to sell shares at secondaries. - Raise/promotion policies are set up in a way where most ppl will never get it. I've seen superstar employees get 2% annual raise. The rest got 1%. - Pay is localized, so you can do the same exact job but get pay half of the compensation if you're not based in the US. - It's either employee contract for less money, and you have some employee rights given to you by your country, or more money but you're getting misclassified on a b2b contract and using vaction days when you get sick. The actual work requirements and responsibilities are the same in both cases. - If you're not drinking the koolaid you better fall in line and keep any opinions challenging the status quo to yourself - Manager can get pretty manipulative, they'll say anything to appease you, but will not act in your interest unless it aligns with their internal politics play

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