Does ByteDance pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, ByteDance employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.0 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at ByteDance. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at ByteDance?

50% of ByteDance employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated ByteDance 2.7 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.1 for culture and values and 3.2 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at ByteDance?

Content Moderator (411) , Software Engineer (394) , Product Manager (143) , Intern (115) , Quality Analyst (79) , Senior Software Engineer (75) , Internship (67) , Quality Assurance (59) , Data Scientist (53) , Account Manager (52) , Quality Assurance Analyst (51) , Human Resources (46) , Software Engineer(Internship) (42) , Machine Learning Engineer (41) , Subject Matter Expert (SME) (41)

What are the pros of working at ByteDance according to real employee reviews?

"Good benefits and friends." ((in 407 reviews)); "good salary and you have the chance to work with the seniors" ((in 316 reviews)); "The company has a lot of good colleagues and have a chance to execute various projects" ((in 212 reviews)); "basic pay is good" ((in 189 reviews)); "People there are nice and helpful" ((in 130 reviews))

What are the cons of working at ByteDance according to real employee reviews?

"No work life balance; expects to be on call even late at night; most of the documents are in mandarin" ((in 238 reviews)); "late working hours" ((in 183 reviews)); "high pressure with no time to spend with life" ((in 71 reviews)); "long hours and fast page" ((in 60 reviews)); "Very bad managers and mentors that aren't willing to teach you." ((in 54 reviews))

What are employees saying about ByteDance layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about ByteDance layoffs and their outlook for job security at ByteDance in 2026.

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ByteDance reviews

3.4

50% would recommend to a friend

(4,237 total reviews)

Rubo Liang

59% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.0

Compensation and benefits

3.2

Diversity & inclusion

3.2

Career opportunities

3.1

Culture & values

2.8

Senior management

2.7

Work/Life balance

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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4K reviews

5.0

Jul 23, 2023

Good Company but Office Politic is real

Quality market specialist

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

It's a good company that offers a good experience and movement within the horizontal or lateral movement. As long as you're up to the challenges you'll have a chance to try new roles at your 6 months for the first internal transfer and and a year after you first internal transfer

Cons

no salary adjustment although you been promoted to a new roles if it's within the same job grade although bigger responsibilities. The office politics is real here

2.0

Jul 6, 2023

Good Company that is grow with opportunities but be aware of China operation

Lead it operations

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- Benefits match to tier company - Grow fast with a lot of opportunities - Some of the employees in the US have outstanding professionalism.

Cons

- If the team's direct manager and skip manager are in China, it will be excruciating to collaborate as the China team has a very different culture and standard. - People are managed up even one of the critical work styles is not to manage up. - All engineer resources are in China, which makes the work very inefficient and ends up with long hours of work. - Little China's politics happened with the China team if work needs to interact with significant resources in China.

1.0

Mar 10, 2023

stay away

Engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

free food drink 401k for FT

Cons

TT no work life balance good if you don't want any relationships work like brainless human long work hour spent 8-10 even 1am still cannot finish work startup mode bad communication from top down deserve a ban from gov around the world confusing desk sharing setting

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