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      ByteDance

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      ByteDance reviews

      3.4

      51% would recommend to a friend

      (4,234 total reviews)
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      Rubo Liang

      58% approve of CEO

      49% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.0

      Compensation and benefits

      3.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.2

      Career opportunities

      3.1

      Culture & values

      2.8

      Senior management

      2.6

      Work/Life balance

      ByteDance has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 4,234 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ByteDance employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      4K reviews
      2.0
      Jul 6, 2023

      Good Company that is grow with opportunities but be aware of China operation

      Lead it operations
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Benefits match to tier company - Grow fast with a lot of opportunities - Some of the employees in the US have outstanding professionalism.

      Cons

      - If the team's direct manager and skip manager are in China, it will be excruciating to collaborate as the China team has a very different culture and standard. - People are managed up even one of the critical work styles is not to manage up. - All engineer resources are in China, which makes the work very inefficient and ends up with long hours of work. - Little China's politics happened with the China team if work needs to interact with significant resources in China.

      1.0
      Mar 10, 2023

      stay away

      Engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      free food drink 401k for FT

      Cons

      TT no work life balance good if you don't want any relationships work like brainless human long work hour spent 8-10 even 1am still cannot finish work startup mode bad communication from top down deserve a ban from gov around the world confusing desk sharing setting

      3.0
      Jul 18, 2022

      Learn a lot, but with heavy workload

      Senior ios developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Data-driven. The new product features came from data analytics. The product features experimented with A/B tests. Features were released to all of the users as long as they increased some of the critical product artifacts(e.g. user visit, user retention). - Good infrastructures. There were many infrastructures that improved the efficiency, such as A/B test, settings, a rich amount of 2nd-party components, and dev-ops. - Good documentation. I didn't love documenting until I entered this company. You could easily find answers to problems by simply searching the documents. The Lark Document was a great product. - Talent and hard-working coworkers. Most of the coworkers were friendly, talented, and hard-working, even the graduates. You always got motivated working with them.

      Cons

      - Heavy workload. The working hours were mostly from 10:30 A.M. to 10:30 P.M. I always left the office at 10:30 P.M. because so many tasks to finish every day. The company offered 3 meals, so you didn't have to leave the office. - Lack of manpower all the time. I often felt overwhelmed but didn't have coworkers to delegate some tasks. In hiring new employees, HR didn't help much, we were on our own. - Hard to finish work at the office. Distractions by meetings, instant chats, and coworkers all the time. I sometimes got started work after everyone left the office at night.

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