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9 reviews
2.0
6 Nov 2025
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Pros

The company values technical quality without demanding employees sacrifice their personal lives. They provide modern tools, including AI, and you'll work with cutting-edge technologies. The environment and culture are excellent for professional development. My direct lead, HR team, and People team were outstanding from day one until my last day - supportive, professional, and genuinely caring about employee wellbeing.

Cons

Your experience depends entirely on your manager. In my case, I dealt with an extremely technical and controlling manager who wouldn't let the team own their work. Rather than traditional micromanagement, it was a sophisticated form of control - disguised as technical guidance but effectively removing team autonomy. Any common deployment error or configuration issue triggered disproportionate reactions. The manager constantly interfered with the Technical Manager's work through conflicting demands disguised as suggestions, undermining the established hierarchy. He worked 24/7 (from 5 AM until late night) and while claiming not to demand this from the team, he subtly pressured for "protagonism" - a concept the company doesn't actually promote. The passive-aggressive communication style created a toxic environment where his words said one thing but expectations were another. He displayed arrogance while denying it. If you can tolerate sophisticated control disguised as collaboration and passive-aggressive communication, it might work. Otherwise, I strongly recommend avoiding this area.

2.0
27 Mar 2026
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Pros

dLocal has smart people, real scale, and interesting challenges. But my experience was marked by cultural issues, chaotic execution, weak HR support, and poor remote communication practices.

Cons

My overall experience was much more difficult than positive. Beyond the usual growing pains of a fast-paced company, I found there to be a level of cultural toxicity that made the environment harder to navigate than it should have been. There was often too much pressure, too little structure, and not enough care in how things were communicated or managed. One of the biggest issues was the level of chaos around people processes and HR. Onboarding was unnecessarily difficult, support was minimal, and there seemed to be very limited understanding of local legal and administrative realities. At times it felt like employees were left to figure out important basics on their own, with very little guidance or ownership from the company side. I also struggled with the company’s broader approach to technology. While ambitious, it sometimes felt like speed, experimentation, and hype were prioritized over thoughtfulness, responsibility, and ethical judgment. I found some of that difficult to reconcile personally. Another major problem is communication. For a remote company, dLocal does not seem to work particularly well in a remote-first way. A huge amount of communication happens in private messages and closed channels rather than in open, documented spaces. That creates silos, duplicates work, reduces visibility, and makes collaboration far less effective than it should be, even within the same team. For some people, especially those who enjoy highly reactive environments and are comfortable filling in a lot of gaps themselves, this may still be a fit. But for anyone looking for strong operational support, healthy communication norms, and a more thoughtful culture, I would be cautious.

4.0
9 Jan 2024

Nice Company

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Pros

Possibility of growth. Smart people to work with. Possibility of working with people from all over the world. Possibility of having paid trips. In Uruguay it pays good salaries, compared to other companies.

Cons

Lack of long-term planning. Little use of project management methodologies. There are no people specialized in management, although this is a con, the pro is that they give the possibility to people without experience to grow in the area. Better communication is needed between areas, at higher levels of management.

4.0
25 Aug 2025
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Pros

I went through 5 interviews over the course of three weeks, and the whole process was extremely well organized and transparent. Communication was always clear, both in terms of technical aspects, the structure of the organization, and the expectations for the role. Everything moved quickly and smoothly, which gave me a lot of confidence in the company. In the end, dLocal offered me more than I expected in terms of salary, which showed how much they value talent and commitment. Overall, it was a real pleasure to go through this process, and it gave me great confidence to take on the upcoming challenges with the team.

Cons

No cons for now no

3.0
24 Jul 2025
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Pros

Hybrid system, time flexibility, good private health assurance, gym pass, nice office

Cons

quick burnout, not too good interaction between areas, not clear processes many times, Slack communication for everything

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