ByteDance reviews

3.4

52% would recommend to a friend

(777 total reviews)
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Rubo Liang

60% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

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5.0
Jul 12, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Great pay and benefits and nice projects to work on

Cons

Not so good culture which can sometimes be toxic based on team

3.0
Jul 9, 2025

Seed Bytedance/TikTok

Recommend
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Pros

Good salary. Good food. Work load not that crazy. You may need to have late meetings. But lot of folks come late (like afternoon) as well to compensate that.

Cons

In some teams Chinese is mostly used. Need to work with folks in China too.

2.0
Jul 9, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

* Compensation is heavily cash-weighted, with a very substantial annual bonus. * Decent benefits. * Strong healthcare package * 5% 401K match * Catered lunch, paid parking, gym & phone reimbursement.

Cons

* Functionally siloed culture — engineering, design, product, and operations teams that are separated and clash more often than they collaborate. * No long-term vision from the top down. * Everyone operates out of fear of upsetting anyone above them. Leadership prefers employees just smile and do what they're told, regardless of whether what they're told to do makes any sense. * Daily evening calls with colleagues in China wrecks WLB. * No transparency: Documentation is scarce, and that which exists is often in Chinese. Decisions are made without involving stakeholders upon which those decisions should depend. Super hard to access high quality data.

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