Personal experience in my role - Fintech Deel Employee Review

3.0
Jul 2, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. It is remote, so you have flexibility to some extent 2. If you are a fast learner, independent and resourceful person, you can learn a lot

Cons

1. Always get the sense to work at "Deel Speed" but no incentives, average or low compensation. While other team seem to get benefits such as bonuses, we had none. There was this USD 100 per month spend that was taken away recently. 2. No proper career development path. Even after 2 years here, there is no future in sight. Tried to move to another team whom I worked closely but "restructuring" happened and management changed, and opportunities seem to disappear. Who is there to vouch for you when your manager keeps changing? Effort put in the past seems all have gone to waste. 3. Team was horribly managed, no long term manager. My team was neglected in the sense that it had 2 changes of department in just 2 years. No proper management in my team, didn't felt like I could rely on any of my managers. Directors either left or were removed. There's this hope that things will greatly improve in 2 years but doesn't seem like it. Always about SLA, ticket queue clearing... 4. Difficult to sustain relationships. High turnover rates. Once you thought you have a good working relationship with someone, he is no longer with the same team or even in the company anymore.

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Thank you for your feedback and the opportunity to provide improvements based on your input. We have taken action items from your comments on incentives, career development and team management, and will bring this back to our leadership and people teams.

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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
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Recommend
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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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