Deel Reviews

4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(2,004 total reviews)
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Alex Bouaziz

92% approve of CEO

84% positive business outlook

Deel has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 2,004 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Deel employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
10 Sept 2023
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Pros

I guess you might like it if you have no life outside of work and you're comfortable with unstructured chaos

Cons

Deel's company culture is a textbook example of how not to run a business. The alarming turnover rate, especially among contractors, screams dysfunction at its finest. The management doesn't just micromanage; they suffocate with their overbearing presence. The CEO, while perhaps ambitious, often behaves more like a petulant child than a leader. Public channels like Slack are riddled with cringe-worthy displays of unprofessionalism from the so-called leaders. And for a company that touts its remote capabilities, the glaring absence of clear remote work guidelines is laughable. Deel's fixation on competitors borders on a schoolyard obsession, and their approach is less strategic and more hysterical. The "competitive analysis" on the company's Notion page, complete with recordings of sales reps from other platforms, is downright tacky. Rumors about Deel's questionable business practices are rife, and their default mode seems to be denial and deflection. Frankly, Deel seems more interested in pointing fingers than in fixing their glaring issues. They're a masterclass in corporate chaos.

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Deel Response
2y
Whilst some of us at Deel have worked in much larger organizations and other hyper growth start ups, I disagree that we have any kind of abnormal or egregious corporate chaos. We are in hyper growth mode and thankful to be in this era specifically during this time in the global economy whereby we have sat by and watched other companies lay off team members, reduce compensation and benefits and perks, stop hiring, take down rounds in valuation and funding, etc. As with other start up businesses, and our competitors included, we have turnover as a result predominantly of poor quality of hire and we must and will do better in training recruiters and managers. We continue to invest in coaching our leaders to scale themselves as leaders of an almost 3,000 person global company with month over month revenue and headcount growth. Specifically, communication, leadership principles, presentation, high performance culture are top of mind. And as for competitive analysis, we have been reactive to our competitors tactics, but are moving to change that and control our own narrative. Thanks for this view.
1.0
27 Feb 2026

AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL

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Pros

Deel growth but currently it is a torture place now. Been here for 4 years and it was good while it lasted.

Cons

Deel growth has been a nightmare for everyone. Reviews are fake on glassdoor, do not trust it. They also underpay people and get cheap labour. Leadership will do anything it takes to make their company great including fire people and create a big gap in process which then they expect you to sort out without a single warning. They will have multiple changes coming up every other day but changes are very often crap and makes team lives worser than it is but will not get more head count. You will also be expected to do your job, do other people's jobs when they get fired and then do all these extra ad hoc tasks they call projects in the name of making our life easier but you will end up choking in this chaos called Deel. Ceo and Leadership wants everything fast fast fast to the point you will lose your mind and peace and hate everything. You will meet teams who are constantly blaming each other, not taking ownership, does not understand what they need to do and you have a lot of people constantly being very rude to you because they are so busy and they are hating their jobs

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