The pros and cons are real - SDR Manager Deel Employee Review

3.0
15 Jul 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company is fully remote so it's a dream come true for some people. The company is also pretty chill about becoming a digital nomad and working from wherever you want as long as you get your work done. If you're a fan of focusing on work and doing what you gotta do on time and not trying to mix emotions and personal matters then its a great place since its more of a performance driven company. This leads to more a work driven environment which can help people succeed if they need that type of boost. Amazing product and it's great to sell and most of the reps truly believe they are helping the world. The product essentially allows people to be employed to great companies globally no matter the location and it's awesome for our reps to be a part of that. Really great marketing and branding to the company which brings it a ton of traffic and inbound flow. Great name recognition and desireable for people to join Deel as employees and recommend to other companies to collaborate with. Really talented people work here and are natural ambassadors of the company and a lot of my reps from my team and others are even overqualfied. Again, can't stress how talented the team are here so obviously they are doing things right!

Cons

The company changes course every few weeks. I've never been in a company with more process changes, rule changes, and focus changes than Deel. It is impossible to keep up with all the updates. Fast pace environment is not even a valid way to describe it because these updates usually slow down the sales teams. Meaning, most of the updates and changes have been detrimental to the SDR's and as a manager I feel for them. A year ago, it was great fun working for Deel as a sales rep, almost like a dream job. Now its a nightmare. Endless need for submitting tickets, no access to do anything correctly and since its remote...everything takes forever to solve and no one takes responsibility for the constant messups that only impact the SDR's. As a manager, it's actually quite nice. The other managers are great as well and everyone's on the same page. But we all equally agree that the company treats SDR's like absolute crap and since a manager role isn't so hard on a skill level (and more on a mentor/wingman/personal support level)...the SDR stuff falls on us at the end of the day. The company is super cheap. Like extremely cheap...it's even one of their cole values. It's literally called "Thoughtful Frugality" and it's in the handbook. While I agree that it's important to have a healthy financial culture to the company, I think Deel takes it too far. For a company that's on path to do a billion in ARR they take being cheap to the next level whether its approval for expenses, total compensation, common benefits per country...they are well below the industry average and everyone's knows it. As a manager, I remember we were about to hire this SDR an another team not too long ago and before we sent out the offer of 23,000 USD per year, the offer was reviewed by the CEO and he asked to lower it to 18,000 USD. Keep in mind this is a poor country the candidate was living in and this 3,000 person company on path to IPO and the CEO is insisting on lowering an entry level role's low salary by 5,000 yearly just because. I will say he is a great CEO in general though, but that just shows you how they value the SDRs. The SDR's arent even invited to the Sales Kick Off, but the Legal and HR team are, how does that make sense? Keep in mind, these Sales Reps have a quarterly revenue target which they must hit to get any bonus and it's quite high, yet they still won't invite them to the SKOs. That also goes to show you how they value them. It's really sad because I've seen many amazing SDR's and Managers get fired or quit from the UK, DACH and Nordics team when all Deel had to do was make a reasonable change that would benefit them for once.

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Deel Response
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Thank you for your feedback and the opportunity to provide improvements based on your input. We have taken action items from your comments on process updates, thoughtful frugality and meeting invites, and will bring this back to our leadership and people teams.

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