good benefits, but poor leadership and culture - Anonymous Deel Employee Review

2.0
Sep 17, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

the unlimited PTO and work-from-anywhere policy are excellent

Cons

- significant growing pains - the company has picked managers who are not strong leaders or culture builders - poor communication and people handling - off-putting political atmosphere within certain areas

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Deel Response
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Thank you for your perspective and feedback. We acknowledge that we have lots of growing to do as we scale at Deel. We are working hard to ensure we have a great company culture, providing opportunities for growth in leadership, and supporting our global team to make sure that they have the ability to bring their full selves to work each day, while exceeding the expectations of our customers. We hope that you understand that there can be growing pains in all startups, especially during this hyper-growth phase, and will keep an open mind as we do our best to scale and support our global team.

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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
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Pros

- Fully Remote - Global team - Best talent in the world - People genuinely care, not only about customers but also the team mates - Deel speed is real - Real collaborative environment where you are valued - Amazing team culture with work life balance

Cons

No negotiation route for compensation during promotions

2.0
May 25, 2026
Anonymous contractor
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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