Hey! Thanks a lot for the shout. I’m Alex, one of the founders of Deel. We’re a 2,000+ team across 85+ countries, so we certainly have quite a bit of experience in this department. We also have over 10,000 customers, ranging from startups to big corporations.
Many companies we talk with usually mention your key point here. Another crucial one we often see is businesses need help knowing where to start or are intimidated by the idea of doing something wrong.
I’m a bit biased here, but I think we’ve certainly solved most of the other issues you mentioned. We connect people with tryroots.io, tackle salary bands with https://www.deel.com/salary-insights, and handle compliance/payroll/local entities with our core product.
There’s still work to do, that’s for sure. However, it’s our mission to democratize global hiring and simplify the process so companies can get started with complete confidence and know they have all the tools needed.
Things got 100x better over (maybe even more) the last two years, and I’m sure they’ll improve over the next 10+.
P.S. If you want to help us make it happen, we are hiring!
Sorry you felt our responsiveness wasn't there then! We've scaled quite a bit, happy to show you how much progress we've made since last year if you ever need. I'm at [email protected]
Yep! We've spent the better part of the last 2 years building out the infrastructure and all key stakeholders in house in every country(Lawyers, Payroll, Accounting) and have entities in most places now. We still work with partners in China but hopefully we'll have the full legal set up and licenses there soon!
I love it! Thanks for sharing, what are some of the questions that triggered that article?
I've personally found it helpful to build a circle of friends/founders who I can ask those questions openly - truth is in most investors or even customers meeting asking the basic questions often does more harm than good.
"For each engineer that we hired in the Bay Area, we could have hired 10–15 outside of it. Everyone has heard of 10x engineers, but what they don't tell you is that the Bay Area doesn't have a monopoly on them." This really surprised me, thought it was a big gap, but not this big
Isn't that just a game of numbers? The more references the more legitimacy - I'm not sure one could ask favors from that many relevant and impactful references