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      ByteDance

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      ByteDance reviews

      3.4

      50% would recommend to a friend

      (4,234 total reviews)
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      Rubo Liang

      59% 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

      2.7

      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
      4.0
      May 20, 2022

      Fast-paced, interesting projects, variable WLB, language barrier for non-Chinese speaker.

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      -Projects are interesting and fast-paced. You will learn a lot working here. -High expectations for senior engineers, you will have lots of opportunities to push your career. -Friendly coworkers, team culture seems pretty good. My team is very accommodating for me who doesn't speak Chinese and changes the primarily used language to English for a lot of projects that I am involved in. -Lots of tools to get past the language barrier (Also see cons). -Good compensation -Good benefits -Great onboarding process and internal tools.

      Cons

      -Even if you work in a primarily English-speaking team, a lot of core documentations are written in Chinese. Even with pretty good translation tools, it can be daunting at first. -Need to have flexible work hours if your team works closely with teams based in China. Could have lots of meetings in the evenings. -Mountain View office is not well developed currently. -Uncertain IPO

      2.0
      Feb 13, 2022

      sucks

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      talents around you big and famous highly paid

      Cons

      unfriendly working hours and get in a wrong team

      2.0
      Sep 29, 2021

      More Cons than Pros

      Manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good Team, Good benefits, Some Perks, Bragging Rights for working at TikTok

      Cons

      Deep, Deep Bureaucracy…Lots of layers and many people involved in process or project approval who do not have the background or knowledge to review. Any financial approval takes a minimum of 6 people, sometimes as many as 20 for everything from multi million dollar projects to $100 team building asks. Every approval has to go the top executives in China, last one I sent (for $200) I was told there were 1000+ ahead of me with one person. Nothing moves quickly here and that can be frustrating and ultimately is costing the company millions if not hundreds of millions of dollars. No career advancement, peoples titles change every month - but it is the same job. Limited bonus structure and no equity in company, unlike google and facebook which have a performance program to award high achievers. Expectation that days are a minimum of 12 hours and weekend work is required to catch up.

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