ByteDance reviews

3.4

50% would recommend to a friend

(4,240 total reviews)
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Rubo Liang

59% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

ByteDance has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 4,240 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
1.0
Jul 2, 2025

Get away from it.

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Pros

The employees are exceptionally talented — top schools, advanced degrees, and high technical standards.

Cons

ByteDance has a toxic work culture that's hard to imagine unless you've experienced it firsthand. You push yourself to the limit, working long hours every day — late nights, weekends — and in the end, you might still get blamed and receive a poor performance review. That said, if your team doesn't need to interact with teams based in China or with expats sent from China, it can be a completely different story.

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