The managers have no clue, the environment is absolutely toxic, and although is a remote set up you end up working 12 hours per day without moving from your desk since you need to be available on slack at all time
Deel Response
2y
We’re sorry to hear this and appreciate your transparent feedback. We are still in a startup growth mode and it's feedback like this that helps us improve. We value and appreciate our team members and are committed to creating a great culture and environment for all. We have taken action items from your comments on training management and your experience at Deel and will bring this back to our leadership and people teams.
- 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
Former contractor, more than 3 years
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