Deel Speed while maintaining high standards of quality - Senior Backend Engineer Deel Employee Review

5.0
Feb 3, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* Although the company is 4000+ people strong, our CEO takes an active interest in the features we produce and contributes regularly with helpful questions. This is great for developer morale. * Induction week was thorough and I was able to understand the business at a high level, the teams, each product and technical processes quickly. * Goals for the company and each team are very clear. So you always know what you're working on and where to put your time and attention to. * Deel has well-organised cross-functional teams for each product. You can find experts in both technical and business domains to unblock any issue. * Deel Speed is real! Yet quality is high and constantly improving through constructive peer reviews for all levels of the stack. * You forget you're working remotely as you talk with your team throughout the day.

Cons

Because it's a big company, it can be difficult to keep up with news and development of what's going on here, but they do provide helpful summaries so you have a good overview.

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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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
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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