It has its pros, but the cons are BIG - Product Marketing Manager/Senior PMM Deel Employee Review

2.0
Sep 9, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Remote first - People are great, generally the team is great - Truly diverse workforce - Can see it mature as a company - Fantastic opportunity (enabling remote workforce/companies to hire from anywhere)

Cons

- By far the biggest con is the pay and workload. Read: you get paid on global benchmarks, so for anyone in the U.S. you WILL be underpaid. By a lot actually. So relative to any other fast-growing startup the pay sucks. - It's full of chaos like the classic startup, and then some. - They pitch stock options and even have an excel sheet to reference to calculate the value of your potential options. If you've been in startups, then you know this is smoke and mirrors -- not until you IPO is it worth anything, or if they allow you to sell in a secondary. It's also far along that the delta between your strike price and the offer is low.

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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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