Great team, worst company - Senior Software Engineer Deel Employee Review

1.0
30 Oct 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They provide remote working environment which was the only reason i stayed.

Cons

They demand you work for more than 10 hrs a day also the work is not technical. Most of the work is to clean, fix code that that is a patch work done by there CTO and other early folks. Founder are toxic and want everything done in a day, they themselves are responsible for breaking things in the first place. They behave like a startup when they want things to be done, but during hike they behave like MNC 1-5% hike if at all given. 10% max on promotion which is only give to people who die for them. For the last 1 year only 5-10% people in company got even this. That's from a workforce of 6k-7k people. There on-call schedule never ends sometime whole team is on-call fixing things and then the management also wants you to finish your usual work on time. There stock options is also not great they want you to pay almost 80% of the current stock price it does not even make sense.

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5.0
13 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great management and nice people in the company.

Cons

no cons really but if I have to say one thing, it would be 401K can be higher to match.

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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