Exceptional Team Culture with Outstanding Work-Life Balance and Product Excellence - Senior Backend Engineer Deel Employee Review

5.0
Jan 5, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The work-life balance here is genuinely excellent - everyone respects your time, and the work-from-home setup makes it easy to stay productive while maintaining a healthy personal life. What really impressed me is how skilled everyone is at their job. The engineering team knows how to build great product, and it's not just them – the POs, Leads, and everyone else are equally talented. Everyone brings real expertise to the table. The team culture is supportive and collaborative. People actually help each, people genuinely look for ways to improve things day by day. Overall, it's a healthy environment with smart, passionate people who are good at what they do.

Cons

Can't think of any right now.

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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
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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
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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