I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Deel in Apr 2022
Interview
The recruiter came in late, unprepared with an apathetic demeanour during a 9 minutes interview. During this bizarre interaction, it transpired that the recruiter was hiring for a completely different role in a different department and in a different region.
The recruiter proceeded to reading their screen following their checklist to fire questions at me despite the fact that I mentioned I was there for the CSM role. No apologies were offered for wasting my time, I had to probe a few times to get a chance to speak and ask if I could be put in touch with the person recruiting the Customer Success Managers. All my questions were answered with one or two words or not answered at all.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Where are you based?
When and where did you find information about what we are doing?
What do you know about our company?
What are your salary expectations?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Deel in Jun 2026
Interview
The recruiter was nice and friendly. There are 5 rounds which felt a little bit too much in my opinion. In one of my rounds the hiring manager never showed up to our scheduled interview, HUGE RED FLAG! I was rescheduled with the same person and the moment the interview began I could feel she was stand-offish with me as if it was my fault for her no showing me. I could tell she did not care to interview me AT ALL! Then I get rejected for the position I didn’t even apply for. I was rejected for a Customer Operations Manager role but I applied for a Customer Success Manager role, another RED FLAG! If they are this disorganized during an interview process I cannot begin to imagine the chaos that is within the company. Good riddance, everything happens for a reason. Lost interest in them any ways.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell us about you?
What did you do to avoid a churn customer?
Interviewer was like a robot with no emotions whatsoever. Automatically made me uninterested in the company along with the conversations I had with CSMs currently working at Deel describing it as “toxic” and a lot of other things. If you want people to work at your company, focus on making the ones there being happy and hiring recruiters that know how to talk to people.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Deel
Interview
The first red flag I experienced was that the recruiter was late to two of our scheduled calls, without any prior notice. Then, right off the bat the hiring manager, let me know that outside of my 40hrs/week, I would need to be available to take evening calls and send emails on weekends. He told me there would be a very limited work life balance and that I needed to be prepared to take minimal breaks during the day because work is so overwhelming. Although that was a huge second red flag, I continued through the interview process because I had heard such good things about the company. When it came time to make an offer, however I was offered $50,000! I told the recruiter that was 30 grand less than I had been making and she even told me she had to double check what state I was in to make sure that it was more than minimum wage! I can’t fathom being expected to work seven days a week for pennies.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you respond to an angry customer about something we are unable to fix?