Low risk, high reward - Sales Leadership Deel Employee Review

5.0
17 Feb 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Deel Speed growth is unmatched anywhere in the world. Company has large vision, great execution, and customer retention is great for a reason. Not perfect, but the pros outweigh the cons in a big way. Deel is only going up from here so remembering Deel is no longer a "startup" and is low risk, yet the future and reward is still very high. Grass is greener here than all of my last companies. Issues are everywhere. Deel's awesome.

Cons

I don't know if HR communicates things ahead of making changes, but doesn't seem so. It can feel like there are more People/HR changes after the fact verses getting a heads up. It causes issues and culture lows, but not the worst. Communication in general is "effective immediately" rather than "in a month heres what you can expect". So it can be a damper on the mood and incredibly difficult to plan around. Expectations are set in stone until they're changed and it's too late to reset expectations.

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Deel Response
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Thank you for your thoughtful review and for being a part of sales leadership at Deel. We appreciate your vision of the bigger picture and how although Deel (as other startups) is going through some challenges as we grow, we truly value our team members and customer and we are doing as best we can as we scale. We appreciate your point on proactive communication. Sometimes speed can get in the way of this, but we will continue to work on more proactive communication.

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5.0
2 Jul 2026
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Pros

Supportive management, clear expectations, good money, work from home culture is dialed in

Cons

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2.0
25 May 2026
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Recommend
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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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