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      Deel

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      Deel reviews

      4.4

      87% would recommend to a friend

      (1,999 total reviews)
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      Alex Bouaziz

      92% approve of CEO

      84% positive business outlook

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      Deel has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,999 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Deel employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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      2K reviews
      1.0
      Sep 1, 2022

      Poor execution and no direction

      Engineer
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Flexibility - The company truly believes that employees should be able to work from anywhere. All employees work from home which adds a lot of value to your everyday.

      Cons

      Lack of experienced management - Most of the manager/directors I encounter had noticable little experience on what they were doing. I would say that the barrier of entry has been very low to allow the head count to grow exponentialy. Of course this comes with negative consequences. There is a massive lack of mentorship and solid direction, a very critical aspect when the majority of the workforce has only a couple of years of professional experience. Undefined expectations - I believe this tights to the point above. When you have inexperienced management, the requirements and expectations that come from them tent to be ridiculous. I'm not talking about tight deadlines nor challenging projects (those are everywhere and are part of most jobs). The expect projects to be completed with out any outlines. Or software to be developed by inexperienced people with virtually no supervision nor support. Low salaries - While it is great that you can work from anywhere, it also means that the company hires from anywhere. That fuels a race to the bottom when it comes to compensation. The company will aim at giving an average salary depending on where you are from (while trying to lowball you). However, you might be competing with some else who is willing to do the job for half. Also, once you get in, forget about bonuses or significant salary inincreases. Stock package - This portion tights to the compensation but it should have its own note. While the very early employees (first ~100) should benefit from their stock options, for the rest is not the same. While discussing salaries this will be a sales point that they will try to hammer down. People who have recinly joined should not expect they stock package to make them millionaires. However, they still try to make new people believe so to low-ball their base salary. Overall not a great place to learn nor earn.

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      Deel Response
      3y
      This is incredibly helpful, specifically from the engineering point of view. I also 100% agree that we must build best practices for Deel at our current and planned scale that aligns with the complexity of our workforce sitting remotely across the world, we need to communicate and educate on our total rewards philosophies and practices (ie we have annual compensation review and quarterly promotion cycles - but we just launched them in July as we were just 12 months into true scale and product to market as well as headcount growth), and we must continue to improve upon our hiring practices across the board but specifically for senior management and leadership to your point. As with most start ups we have promoted and even hired first time managers, which means that we must double down on training and management development. We have specifically been looking to balance our internal promotions with external hiring to ensure that we bring on people that have the experience to scale Deel for us and for our customers. This initiative will continue as we have senior roles open. You are also spot on with objectives and key results being clearly defined and scoped. This has been a work in progress for the past 6 months specifically and we are still learning and developing our process as its still been very fluid with how fast we are growing, adding new people, and needing to scope work. Finally, regarding total compensation, we do have a location based pay philosophy. Some companies do and some companies don't. Since we do, we look at market rates for the job in the country of residence of the person becoming a contractor or employee to extend a competitive offer. We do not intend for less expensive talent to win out over more expensive talent though - we desire to hire the best, most qualified person for Deel independent of where they sit. So this is something I want to take back to the team to ensure is not happening as you say or does not continue to happen. For stock compensation, this is typical - earlier team members took bigger risks and as the company continues to move through funding rounds the risk for people who join in these later stages is less so we see stock option grants acclimate to the risk and funding round. We do have new hire grant targets by job profile (and these are global targets, not local) and its important to us that team members are owners and have the opportunity for a payout and reward at an IPO or liquidity event. We need to do better at communicating the value, which is still significant, to candidates, new hires and incumbent team members. Overall, relevant review and we appreciate it!
      1.0
      Jul 3, 2022

      Beware - do NOT work here

      Customer success manager (csm)
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      None. I don’t know how they’re still in business the way they treat employees and how often they lay people off without cause.

      Cons

      They do not care about their employees. Everyone is overworked. If they say otherwise, they are likely just new and drawn in by Deel’s hyper growth.

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      Deel Response
      3y
      It's unfortunate you had such a poor experience with us at Deel. We are admittedly a super hyper growth company (50 to 550 people in 2021 and 550 to ~1200 YTD 2022) and with hyper growth comes pain points. We are dealing with some of those pain points in our organizational debt due to hyper growth, such as hiring the wrong profile of person and we do unfortunately have to move to performance management or even termination of the employment relationship. But we do not fire people off without cause. Deel is not a place where everyone should work. We are a fully remote global company and people who are not self motivated, autonomous, self-driven, resilient, and comfortable with working in a 24/7 environment where you must manage yourself and your time effectively as your manager and team and cross functional relationships may not be in your time zone would not be happy or successful here most likely. We are also a pre-IPO hyper growth start up as aforementioned and people who are not bought into our mission and vision and who operate as owners (ie driven to take ownership of their work and drive it to completion, even when that means it comes at the cost of not having a typical 8 hour workday on some occasions) are likely not going to be an ideal fit. Start ups like Deel with the opportunity to be a generational company, bringing a solution and opportunities to companies and people around the globe in the talent marketplace, are rare and take a lot of work in these earlier days of product to market so this is something anyone looking to join Deel or join any start up company should ask questions about during the interview process to ensure there is a good match on both sides. Deel Speed is also one of our core values, and perhaps our most cited value, as it means that we take care to move quickly to solve tough problems, bring resolution to an issue for our customers, solve a business need for a customer, connect a person with a company for work so they can begin receiving pay, build new products, give fast feedback, etc. It's critical to move with speed at our stage as we add more customers and more team members daily.
      1.0
      Jun 14, 2023

      Most toxic place I ever worked

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      This is a short list: fast growth, work from anywhere. But Deel offers no other pros that I can think of and certainly none that you cannot find at other companies.

      Cons

      Leadership micro-management and lack of experience Lack of basic structures, processes and business information Reactive, chaotic, wasteful Slow decision-making Lack of transparency Poor internal communication Poor delegation Disingenuous, toxic culture Nepotism No work/life balance Unethical treatment of employees and vendors

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