TikTok reviews

-HR and Recruiter reps will often lie about expectations or benefits. -There is no structure, and it's all talk about growth, seen no peers or cross-functional teams get promoted in a year even through mass hiring. -Paid holidays is a lie, often has to work holidays -No accommodation option for full remote-work, even though all work has been done remote for past 2 and a half years.

Your first job here is likely your last job. Promotion is very rare. There is lateral move though. Most people stay 1-2 years and don't see the value to stay longer. It is not a company that you want to stay for the long term unless you have something truly special (e.g. no more than 50 people in the world can do what you do, then they make sure they take care of you... until they don't need you any more). A LOT of management issues. Why do others keep saying "no WLB" and "crazy hours"? That is because what takes 1 hour at Google will take 1 week at TikTok/Bytedance. The HQ staff in Beijing simply have different kind of understanding of how the business world works. I am not saying one is better than the other. I am just saying they are VERY different and it takes a tremendous amount of efforts to align, and unfortunately, all decisions of some significance have to go through Beijing. Staff in Beijing does not experience the same cultures in America. Therefore, they sometimes say things that Americans will frown upon (what? did he really just say that?). They don't have bad intentions. They just don't have the same culture. They just don't know what is not culturally appropriate here in the US.