Multiple payroll errors during and after employment - Designer Deel Employee Review

1.0
9 Feb 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Fully remote - Some colleagues are highly capable and thoughtful

Cons

- Repeated payroll errors and data inaccuracies. - Lack of clear ownership in people operations. - Poor offboarding and compliance processes. During my employment, I noticed a significant discrepancy in my monthly pay. When I logged into the system using my own credentials, it displayed another employee’s contract instead of mine, which resulted in an incorrect salary being paid. This also raised concerns around data access and privacy. The issue required manual intervention and multiple follow-ups with the relevant team to resolve. While this occurred once, it required significant effort to correct. There was also confusion around my annual leave entitlement, and HR was unable to confirm the correct number of days without me providing my own contract for reference. In addition, my home address on my P60 was incorrect for two consecutive years, despite my address having been updated in the system promptly after I moved. I flagged the issue after the first year and was assured it would be corrected; however, the following year’s P60 still contained the same incorrect address. The correction process took an extended amount of time, which caused unnecessary stress during a time-sensitive mortgage application. After leaving the company in July 2025, I have still not received my P45 as of February 2026. I contacted both the People and Payroll teams, but received no response, and one payroll inbox appeared to be inactive. Taken together, these issues indicate serious gaps in basic payroll accuracy, data handling, and offboarding processes, which is particularly concerning for a company operating in HR and payroll.

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5.0
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Great management and nice people in the company.

Cons

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2.0
25 May 2026
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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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