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 (396) , Product Manager (146) , Intern (116) , Quality Analyst (79) , Senior Software Engineer (78) , 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 manager allows you to be independent in your work" ((in 346 reviews)); "The company has a lot of good colleagues and have a chance to execute various projects" ((in 210 reviews)); "basic pay is good" ((in 209 reviews)); "People there are nice and helpful" ((in 144 reviews)); "good working environment; working time is flexible" ((in 132 reviews))

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

"No work life balance; expects to be on call even late at night; most of the documents are in mandarin" ((in 240 reviews)); "late working hours" ((in 180 reviews)); "high pressure with no time to spend with life" ((in 75 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 reviews

3.4

51% would recommend to a friend

(4,284 total reviews)

Rubo Liang

59% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

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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).

Reviews by job title

4K reviews

1.0

Aug 12, 2021

Stressful

Quality assurance

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

everyday new policy update and not properly aligned. No proper communication with seniors. No pros only cons

Cons

Nothing to say if you can handle the stress and good reader to remember things and can watch nudity than this is the place for you

4.0

Aug 11, 2021

Work life experience

Backend developer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

In SG, wlb is okay, but the team culture various from team to team. I would said currently I feel satisfy!

Cons

Need to speak Chinese for better communication, part of the document is wrote in Chinese.

4.0

Aug 10, 2021

Great for a start

Quality analyst

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

-social benefits -lots of young employees

Cons

-salaries could be a lot better

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Jobs at ByteDance

Benefits Operation Data Analyst Project Intern - 2026 Start (BS/MS)

Student Researcher (AI Foundation Models Infrastructure – Seed Infra) – 2026 Start (BS/MS)

Student Researcher (Multimodal Interaction and World Model - Seed) – 2027 Start (PhD)

Student Researcher (AI Foundation Model Infrastructure - Seed) - 2027 Start (BS/MS)

Machine Learning Engineer Intern (E-Commerce Knowledge Graph - CV/Multimodal/NLP) - 2026 Summer (BS/MS)