Avoid at all costs. - SMB Account Executive Deel Employee Review

1.0
Feb 14, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They really do hire great people, so I walked out with a lot of great friends that I’ll have for a lifetime.

Cons

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.

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Deel Response
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The Sales team has heard the feedback on lead distribution and have continued to communicate expectations in all roles across sales. Regarding managers, we have a variety of experience levels in sales management specifically - from highly experienced to new in role and promoted internally. For 2023 we announced and have been committed to up-skilling and training our managers to operate more effectively at this scale. Deel is one of the hardest manager jobs there is due to our complexity of product, internal organization, communication requirements, and being fully remote so even for more experienced managers its a challenge. We can do more and more here to support. Regarding new products and product enhancements and changes, yes, this will continue to be the case as we grow, iterate, and scale. We hear you that we can do better in enabling sales in this effort.

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5.0
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Cons

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2.0
May 25, 2026
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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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