Toxic leadership and chaotic culture create high stress - Customer Success Manager Deel Employee Review

1.0
Jun 8, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The ICs and middle management are good people genuinely trying their best, although a lot of quit or gotten fired so that might have changed. Bonus payouts were generally been decent

Cons

Don't let the Customer Success title fool you — this is a reactive support role. You get thrown into customer calls almost immediately with barely any product training, and the internal documentation you're supposed to rely on is often outdated or just wrong. The expectation is 4 customer calls a day, 20 a week, on top of a massive workload. 10+ hour days are normal. The Head of CS preaches on LinkedIn daily his awful takes and act likes he a wise leader, when he’s the most toxic leader I’ve ever worked under. In order to be successful he suggests if you’re not thinking of work on the weekend then you don’t care enough. He’s also known to yell at and cuss out CSMs for customer issues that are out of their control. I’m not even going to begin with the rest executive leadership - just Google what’s going on with them. It’s as much of a mess on the inside that it seems on the outside. Team culture is rough. Different departments have completely misaligned expectations of each other and it creates constant friction, confusion, and chaos. Nothing is truly efficient here when you’re bounced between 5 different departments to get a simple answer. Tensions are high between CS, support, payroll and HR. The product grew too fast without the quality to back it up, so platform issues are frequent. And if you need any more proof of how things are run: their own US payroll can't consistently pay employees correctly or on time. Make of that what you will. Deel Speed is a real thing. Deel Quality is not. Almost everyone is unhappy and actively looking for a way out. This honestly becomes evident after 2 weeks there once you hear how stressed and burnt out everyone is. Take the positive Glassdoor reviews with a grain of salt. Employees are prompted to leave a review during onboarding before they know what they’ve gotten themselves into.

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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
Recommend
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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
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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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