They will never promote you. - Sales Development Representative (SDR) Deel Employee Review

2.0
11 June 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good product fit, nice "need" to have versus a "nice to have"

Cons

If you are coming here as an SDR thinking you will get promoted, do not go here. You will waste years of your life. Go somewhere else. Despite what LinkedIn may say about quarterly promotions on his LinkedIn the reality couldn't be further from the truth. In the last 2 years there has only been two opportunities to interview for AE. We are looking at about 30 SDRs that have constantly been hitting attainment for 18-24 months that have not even be given a shot at interviewing. In addition to that expect to be constantly told lies by management and expected to work 10+ hour days. Management is also only vested in their stock grants leading up to IPO as opposed to growing their people or caring about anything other than IPO day. Speaking of leadership there is zero accountability or any culture of professionalism. The CEO will literally go into Slack channels after an employee has left and will call them a loser for leaving Deel. The same CEO allegedly involved in legal issues and is now evading his court date by hiding away in Dubai according to the news.

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5.0
10 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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
25 May 2026
Anonymous contractor
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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