ByteDance reviews

High Expectations and Pressure, Bureaucracy and Scale

literally everything else lol. - management does not care about you. they don’t know the first thing about managing. the only qualification to manage is you have to be chinese or east asian presenting. straight up, no bs. it’s the elephant in the room and i’m just calling it out. - they literally paid me in pennies for the same job my team members were getting x3 more than me for. they hated that ‘pay transparency was a thing in America.’ - while they try desperately to show the optics that they aren’t tied to China, TikTok and all its managing decisions are all ultimately made by them. - they want to know what competitors are doing and will hire ex employees from those places and then listen to zero advice, suggestions, guidance, etc. They truly do not listen to anyone but from the top. - they love to make you feel dumb, if you have Asian parents you know what i’m talking about. nothing you do is good enough. - even when you show them proof and receipts and cold hard facts of unethical treatment, they just have nothing to say, deny it, and write you off as a disruptor. from there, they will actively begin to review poorly so they have an excuse to force you to resign. - their performance review system….. gworl don’t get me started. absolute nonsense and chaos. I will leave it at this list because I can go on and on.