Does ByteDance pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, ByteDance employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.0 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at ByteDance. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at ByteDance?

51% of ByteDance employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated ByteDance 2.6 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.1 for culture and values and 3.3 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at ByteDance?

Content Moderator (413) , Software Engineer (397) , Product Manager (146) , Intern (116) , Quality Analyst (79) , Senior Software Engineer (79) , Internship (67) , Quality Assurance (59) , Data Scientist (53) , Account Manager (52) , Quality Assurance Analyst (51) , Human Resources (46) , Software Engineer(Internship) (42) , Machine Learning Engineer (41) , Subject Matter Expert (SME) (41)

What are the pros of working at ByteDance according to real employee reviews?

"good salary and you have the chance to work with the seniors" ((in 315 reviews)); "The company has a lot of good colleagues and have a chance to execute various projects" ((in 206 reviews)); "basic pay is good" ((in 202 reviews)); "People there are nice and helpful" ((in 142 reviews)); "Teams are great." ((in 123 reviews))

What are the cons of working at ByteDance according to real employee reviews?

"TT no work life balance good if you don't want any relationships work like brainless human long work hour spent 8" ((in 241 reviews)); "late working hours" ((in 186 reviews)); "High pressure to meet performance targets" ((in 68 reviews)); "Very bad managers and mentors that aren't willing to teach you." ((in 52 reviews)); "Not work life balance at all" ((in 51 reviews))

What are employees saying about ByteDance layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about ByteDance layoffs and their outlook for job security at ByteDance in 2026.

What are the top reviewed ByteDance locations?

San Jose , Seattle , Los Angeles , Mountain View , New York , Bellevue , Austin , San Francisco , Chicago , Ashburn , Nashville , Palo Alto , China , California City , Culver City , Boston , Scottsdale , China Grove , China , San Diego , Sunnyvale , California , Ann Arbor , South China , Canada , Houston , Texas City , Peru , Calabasas , Chino Hills

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ByteDance

ByteDance reviews

3.4

51% would recommend to a friend

(4,284 total reviews)

Rubo Liang

59% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.0

Compensation and benefits

3.3

Career opportunities

3.2

Diversity & inclusion

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 4,284 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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Reviews by job title

4K reviews

1.0

Nov 12, 2022

Worst company to work in

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Don't work here even it pays 200K extra, stocks are worth nothing Hopefully will be banned in 2023

Cons

Stocks are worth the pdf it was signed on Bad manager who don't have people skills Asian employee don't understand English and will try to point out that a every one should use bad English so they can understand Too much work for too less pay Glorifying communist China Most people are extremely racist and China centeric

3.0

Nov 12, 2022

It could be better

Sre engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The experience of handling cases at scale on an ever changing environment.

Cons

Lack of proper channels of communications.

5.0

Nov 7, 2022

PM

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Transparency Transparency Transparency Transparency Target

Cons

Target Target Target Target Target

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