I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Deel in Jan 2021
Interview
Product may have potential, but warning to my fellow EMEA sales professionals, the CRO here is very inexperienced. Should you take a role here I would be concerned about the success of this company under the current leadership.
CRO clearly has never been in sales before and does not understand how to run a sales cycle let alone lead a sales team. Questions asked were vague and non sensical, she half listened to answers given and incorrectly repeated back what I said and threw out random sales jargon.
Only made it to the first round, held by the recruiter. I'm used to first-round interviews being high-level and an exchange of introductions of the specific role and your profile. My recommendation for future applicants is to be able to talk about the strategy you'd bring to the role and be specific about why you're looking to join the company at this particular point in time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How did you generate prospects, what was your outbound strategy
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Deel (Hong Kong) in Jul 2026
Interview
The company reached out to me on LinkedIn and booked me in for an interview. I told them in advance I wasn't considering any junior roles given my experience. The day of the interview the interviewer didn't show up and no explanation was received. The next day another recruiter reached out through LinkedIn letting me know that the role scope has changed. Super unprofessional and disrespectful.
Recruiter/TA screen
Hiring manager interview
Sales director interview
Mock demo / mock discovery call (often with 2 managers)
Meeting with head of international sales or Director of Expansion
Behavioral/culture-fit interview with someone from a different department
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
regular about my past sales experience, mock discovery
Account Executive applicants have rated the interview process at Deel with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 51.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Account Executive roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 34 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Deel overall takes an average of 20 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Deel as a Account Executive according to 34 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 30%
One on one interview: 23%
Skills test: 14%
Presentation: 13%
Group panel interview: 9%
Personality test: 5%
Other: 3%
Background check: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
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