Sales bro hustle culture with 0 training - Sales Development Representative (SDR) Deel Employee Review

2.0
8 Nov 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Product is great - Big and exciting changes coming for the company and remote work

Cons

- Leadership who shouldn't be in leadership - No continuous training or guidance on cold calls, emails, anything... - Quantity over quality type of sales org - They hand out PIP's without a heads up and after the month is already started - Unable to go to leadership if you have a concern about anything (well you are, but you'll be punished for it) - Fully remote company... 15min 1:1's once a week, and team meetings are bi-weekly... 2 TIMES A MONTH

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Deel Response
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For our Sales Development Representative roles, which this review seems to strongly reference, we do need better enablement that is ongoing. We have identified this as a key priority for 2023 and thank you for this feedback. For performance reviews and performance improvement plans, yes we have expectations for people to perform and be successful in their role and when they are not we identify if the person has the skills and experience but simply needs more direction or time to ramp, which could result in a plan for performance improvement, or decide if the skills are not there and its not a great fit for either side. Regarding leadership, we do need to continue developing leaders and we will. Regarding Wolf of Wall Street, if you've seen the movie and worked at Deel I don't think there is a close comparison, but it was a good movie and we will continue to ask that SDRs bring in sales qualified leads as that is part of the job.

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Cons

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2.0
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CEO approval
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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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