TikTok Software Engineer - SRE reviews

3.6

42% would recommend to a friend

(22 total reviews)
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Shou Zi Chew

100% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Software Engineer/SRE employees have rated TikTok with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 22 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer/SRE professionals have a good working experience there. TikTok is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer/SRE professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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22 reviews
2.0
Dec 1, 2025

Stepping stone

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- branding/name recognizion - some good tech/idea/architecture around

Cons

- Processes feels like 2009 - language barrier, time-zone, default is closed/locked - Deadline driven

3.0
Mar 28, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1: high pay consider the year of experience 2: free lunch and breakfast

Cons

1: overtime work, you need to catchup with chinese team at their time zone which mean you will have meeting at 5pm or 6pm 2: you will be struggle if you don't understand Chinese because most of the document is in Chinese.

3.0
Mar 18, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good pay in over all

Cons

long working times of work

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