Working Experience - Backend Engineer ByteDance Employee Review

4.0
Feb 12, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Compensation and benefits exceed the local average. 2. The company is large with stable core businesses.

Cons

1.There is a huge difference in work culture among departments, making it difficult to achieve promotions when working in peripheral departments. 2.The rapid expansion of the company in the past has resulted in a mixed quality of personnel. 3.Most departments have long working hours and high daily stress.

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Pros

The pay is competitive, and the overall compensation package is fairly good.

Cons

If you are not Chinese, career advancement can be significantly more difficult, especially when it comes to promotion opportunities and visibility with leadership. I previously worked in HR compliance at ByteDance. While large-scale layoffs may happen less frequently than at some other companies, the company may use many unusual or legally questionable approaches to pressure employees to resign or justify termination. Employees should be very careful, understand company policies, and keep written records of important conversations.

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