Think twice! - werkgeversreview Anonieme werknemer bij Deel

1,0
16 mrt 2022
Anonieme werknemer
Aanbevelen
Goedkeuring directeur
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Pluspunten

- Working remotely is great and if you love traveling/hate commuting then you'll love it! - Getting to know people all over the world - If you get into a good team and have a good manager it can be fun but if not...

Minpunten

Could write a book about this. But to be clear, everything here has been shared multiple times with various teams inside the company so Deel could improve but no one really cared... it's better to look successful and caring on the outside but to disregard many concerns on the inside of the company. I'm not the only one, many employees complain about many things and it's not rare to see people join and leave after a few weeks/months. Again I get it, it's a startup, it's growing extremely fast, it's good for certain people in the company but at what cost? See below: - Salary isn't fair and depends on location. So better move to San Francisco and after getting hired move to a cheap location. Even a little kid would see that the logic behind salaries doesn't make sense and isn't fair. Someone doing the same job who joins 2 years after you might get a higher salary because he lives somewhere else... seems fair. - If you didn't get stock options then maybe it would be better to work in a factory cause the salary is probably higher and has more structure. But hey you get to work remotely... - no structure... everything is on Notion. If you don't know something, go and find it yourself cause everyone expects you to know everything on Notion by heart. - processes, rules, information changes daily/weekly with tons of useless slack channels, tags, info on Notion. (again it's normal, being remote and growing fast to deliver information to everyone. But we don't have to like it and nothing is improving) - Joined pretty early, saw Deel as a family, worked many hours during the night for a year, went above and beyond for every metric there is, and thought working hard will get me the promotion but it's not true. No one cares... You have to fight for yourself constantly, promote yourself and make yourself likable. - Everything is manual. It looks like it's automated from the outside but you have to do essential tasks manually every day even after reporting it for more than a year. - no wonder Trustpilot reviews are higher than glassdoor reviews. Glassdoor's rating looks fine NOW but if you can, check the total rating from 1-2 years ago. Many positive Glassdoor reviews have been given by employees who have been at Deel for less than 6 months, it's rare to see a good review of someone who worked +1 year, also because the majority almost 700 of 800 employees have been hired in the last year. - Benefits on the job board are a joke. - Stock options aren't included if you don't ask for them explicitly - Ego, ego, ego... The majority of execs behave as if everyone is their slaves and they're the rulers of their kingdom. Some execs are fair and genuine but the culture is toxic. No wonder so many employees left from various teams. - A lot of things are being done to look professional like a performance review but then nothing happens after the review... It's something you've heard various times so what's the point of a review. - no clear career path - "just keep pushing and if you ever complain we will see and probably disagree" - Getting promoted doesn't depend on performance, make yourself likable, talk constantly on slack even if it's not valuable and make the life of your manager easy, and then maybe you get a chance. - You have to be online 24/7 and answer instantly. - Giving neutral feedback about any bad or negative processes doesn't work and backfires... which is why this review won't help Deel either because ego is higher than the willingness to improve. That's why everyone just works their hours, they only see Deel as a company they get money in exchange for their work and that's it. If you're lucky and have some colleagues in your city you can make friends and it feels a bit better but ask anyone about these points and 80% will agree. I could write many many more points here and more specific examples but these are more general points that might help everyone to see how it is internally at Deel.

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I appreciate this review very much. You've taken the time to thoughtfully outline some of what I have uncovered myself since joining as Head of People in December 2021 and some of which I am tasked with course correcting. You are also correct in that going from 50 to 550 people in the 12 months of 2021 meant that things that were not efficient in processes before remained ripe for improvement, including how we scale our culture, our leaders, and our internal communication. We value all of our team members and are especially grateful for the earlier team members like yourself with more than one year of tenure who were building the foundations for Deel. Having been in startups for the past 10 years leading People teams I am not seeing anything abnormal or things that cannot be improved. We have a unique and special culture, naturally diverse and inclusive, with true owners working in radical ways to build the future of work. I know that we can build upon that and that as a People team we owe all Deelers more transparency in pay, better and faster processes to issue your stock option grants once approved by the Board, culture surveys to understand our internal engagement like we do our external customer satisfaction, and ongoing performance and fast feedback. These are all things we have been building since December and we knew it would take Q1 to do it. I also think its important to reiterate here that, just as our customers do and our platform is built for, we employ people in multiple ways and that means we have global Deel benefits and perks ($100 per per per month for wellness and $30 per person per month for development), everyone participates in performance, everyone receives a new hire stock grant (you don't have to ask for it) and everyone is eligible for performance/promotion/refresh grants as well. But this also means that dependent on employment status and the country in which you sit as your tax location there are differences in base compensation by region and statutory required benefits by country. We need to make that more transparent because pay parity (independent of race and gender people in the same job profile are paid within the same salary range for the region in which they sit). Pay parity does not mean that a person sitting in New York City will earn the same as someone sitting in Buenos Aires. We regionalize pay and as people move their tax address we make salary changes as applicable. Again, thank you for this review. We'll be bringing more ways for you to provide feedback internally as well (ie Roots!) and I hope you will begin to see improvements. 2022 is a building year for us on the People side and we're building the team to support you.

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Pluspunten

Great management and nice people in the company.

Minpunten

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- 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

Minpunten

- 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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