ByteDance reviews

3.4

50% would recommend to a friend

(4,237 total reviews)
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59% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

ByteDance has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 4,237 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
May 16, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits (Depending on the country): - Free catering at the office - Subsidized public transport - Gym & Wellness - Small perks etc.

Cons

1. Performance Review - totally depends on your +1 and +2s opinion. Not data-driven, decision is made regardless of your achievements, and then they can even feed you with delusional reasons (i.e. I was told I take vacations unethically, not at all relevant, also considering that my +1 approves them) 2. You are alone. Everyone is nice a great on words. In the end everyone will look very busy, only come to you if they need something (I worked with 100 stakeholders). You are dropped with an OKR, no tools, no frameworks, do whatever you want to get there, jump off the roof, work 24/7. You are lucky to work in a team, document everything and peacock at the meetings, otherwise, your credits are stolen. 3. No dignity. They wanted to remove me due to restructuring, which I understand. But, severance was lower than internal policy, they always cut down the deadlines and conditions that I negotiated with them, literally their words and written confirmation had no value. 4. Lost management. I changed 4 leaders in 2 years, none of them knew what I was doing, besides that my OKR was feeding theirs. They asked how they can help but every time they directed conversation into me solving an issue myself (guess if I could I wouldn't have contacted them on the first place)

2.0
May 15, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very good compensation and benefits. Working with lots of smart people.

Cons

Lots of bureaucracy, a lack of transparency and no stability. It was resolving door of team/department leaders entering and leaving every, single, year. Also some questionable internal transfers to team leadership with no experience in the department. Many people more interested in just CYA / protecting themselves than getting work done. The 360 review system was also very opaque, with no visibility of what was really going on. Although there is no "forced distribution" or reviews, there was a strong recommendation on sticking to an "expected distribution" or review scores leading to some forced lower grades for some employees. This lack of transparency carries through to pretty much every other part of the company from internal communication to external. Poor work-life balance since depending on your team, you have to regularly take early morning calls and late night calls. This basically means you are never really off, and still have to think about work all the time.

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