ByteDance reviews

-international presence, but still a very Chinese company. Mandarin speaking essential even though the role is not based in China. -Poorly structured organization with arbitrary job grading where there is no clear scope of job responsibilities -highly competitive culture where team members are pitted against one another, no collaboration or team work despite working toward a common goal/objective -they use their own software so a lot of inefficiencies that have not / are not being addressed. End up wasting time doing manual admin, time that could be spent doing more value added work -majority of employees primary goal is to ‘make it to the 6-month probation’ and you will question whether you still love doing what you were hired to do and have been doing before the company -waste of company resources on arbitrary ‘business trips’ where nothing substantial is accomplished, this takes time away from the actual job/ responsibilities that need to be looked after

Management keep changing the KPI metric without clear justification in short notice as a way to quickly filter those who cannot keep up and have them quit. Policies are not made to be relevant to the actual problem or objective. A lot of disparity between us and QA which impacted our KPI but none was taken seriously in a prompt way. The layoff email was done inappropriately. Management was too scared to face the employees' criticism. There were no outlet to ask questions directly to the higher up who made the decision. We were kept in the dark about why the layoff was made. No justification on how the remaining employees who are saved from the layoff were chosen. Everything was done in short notice. We are 'given a chance and time' to apply internally before our last day but HR is not working efficiently to process our application on time EVER and we have to return our laptop, the only method to apply internal job posting, way earlier than our last day of service. Please handle your layoffs properly. Your employees build your company. Have mercy and compassion.