ByteDance reviews

3.4

51% would recommend to a friend

(776 total reviews)
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Rubo Liang

59% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

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1.0
Jun 28, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Smart coworkers, lunch and dinner provided

Cons

- Work-life balance is awful. Lots of impromptu meetings on the weekends with coworkers in China - Pretty much all major business decisions take place at the Chinese HQ, and these meetings are conducted in Chinese. You will feel very disconnected from the product and culture of the company if you are not a Chinese-speaker. - Little-to-no formal code review process; the company is more focused on short-term results than long-term maintenance. Bugs everywhere on the development pipeline with little documentation for them. They are reported through group chat and will only be addressed once coworkers in China have time on their hands (very rare). - Compensation isn't on-par with the rest of Silicon Valley

2.0
Apr 22, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Great benefits & Competitive salary - Extremely fast paced culture so you will learn a lot (1 Month feels like 1 Year) - Tiktok is growing so u get to be part of a product which is growing exponentially (Good brand to have on your resume) - Free food - Young culture - New office brings fresh energy

Cons

- Most decisions are taken in China - HQ in China - Constant uncertainty due to US-China trade-war - Chinese team members tend to speak in Chinese so non-Chinese speakers can feel left out - Competitive culture so everyone is trying to prove themselves fast and step on others toes - 996 culture is rampant - You may not be able to work for US government/related companies in future since you were part of a Chinese company - Pain of a growing global company. Something I have witnessed at Uber & Airbnb

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