Extremely toxic management, led by fear and high turnover - RUN - Product Manager Deel Employee Review

1.0
Jun 27, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

You have the freedom to work wherever.

Cons

Employees are treated like transactions. Upper level management has no regard for employees, their experience as an employee or the impact to their health the massive stress takes on. When you raise concern over the approach of a project, you are quickly seen as defiant. The management teams are not leaders. They manage teams like a dictator and through fear. Employees disappear overnight and when you sign on have been deactivated. There is so much turnover that projects can never be completed to their fullest potential. Instead of contributing to an employees’ growth, Deel would rather fire them and hire new. Then complain it was all their fault for the feature not being completed. It is expected that you work weekends and extremely long hours, going completely against what you see all over LinkedIn. “Deel speed” is their pride but a majority of the time you’re needing to work so fast to meet the same deadlines even though the direction has changed 900 times. The executive team has no focus or understanding of how to strategize. If you question the strategy, even for understanding, you’re considered difficult and undermining the General Managers. Teams are required to travel across the world last minute, Dubai, and then are stranded and left to their own ability to get home in the middle of a war.

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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
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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