Remote work benefits overshadowed by poor leadership and chaos - Sales Deel Employee Review

1.0
Jul 22, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Remote work as it’s all for Pros.

Cons

Leadership takes the ownership for VC branding not for their employees at all; messy internal operation workaround - tons of applications implemented but ultimately to ‘use’ them for building homegrown craps; No clear roadmap and OKRs - every month to quarter is changing without notice to employees and customers (overnight change on pricing). You’ll be tempt lucky to stay on - remember - temporarily lucky.

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5.0
Jul 2, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

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

Cons

Deel Speed is real. Not for everyone, but as I said, expectations are reasonable and compensation is appropriate so I don't see it as a con per se.

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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