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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2.0
May 15, 2025
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Very good compensation and benefits. Working with lots of smart people.

Cons

Lots of bureaucracy, a lack of transparency and no stability. It was resolving door of team/department leaders entering and leaving every, single, year. Also some questionable internal transfers to team leadership with no experience in the department. Many people more interested in just CYA / protecting themselves than getting work done. The 360 review system was also very opaque, with no visibility of what was really going on. Although there is no "forced distribution" or reviews, there was a strong recommendation on sticking to an "expected distribution" or review scores leading to some forced lower grades for some employees. This lack of transparency carries through to pretty much every other part of the company from internal communication to external. Poor work-life balance since depending on your team, you have to regularly take early morning calls and late night calls. This basically means you are never really off, and still have to think about work all the time.

3.0
May 8, 2025

Used to be good

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good salary and benefits, good colleagues, provided snacks

Cons

Micromanage, hardly get any bonus despite working hard to achieve KPI.

3.0
May 4, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good reimbursement and allowances - Variety of goods in pantry or vending machine - Year end gift and increments and also bonus - Hybrid work - Work life balance

Cons

- Nepotisme (depends on team and projects) - Micro-management - Toxic environment and politic culture - Poor leadership and colleagues relationship - Toxic arbitration's metrics and process that make you and your colleagues became enemies - Hard to grow in career opportunities and development

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