ByteDance reviews

3.4

50% would recommend to a friend

(4,237 total reviews)
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Rubo Liang

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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4K reviews
5.0
Mar 29, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits are getting better and better each year. It's slowly becoming an international company by hiring key positions outside of China. HQ is based in China, however, they are giving more autonomy and growth expansion to it's non-China business. It's a great time to join them!

Cons

Increment is not guaranteed. Highly performance based - only high performers will be rewarded.

2.0
Mar 28, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good health insurance and pention scheme - It's easy to be in contact with the management - WFH expenses - Company gifts

Cons

- The company is not transparent regarding bonus. - If you get promoted you won't have a salary raise straight away. - Managers have more than 20 analysts in charge, and there are no roles such as 'manager assistant' to support on this. - Apart from having a numerous team, managers have to work in other several projects. - Expect to work extra time with no extra pay everyday unless you are a Quality Analyst. - Quality Analyst role is actually a Content moderator role. - The company is growing exponentially and it's slowly feeling like if you're working for a vendor such as CPL, Accenture, Cognizant, etc. - No proper training in tools to work, usually they will ask you to work in something you have no idea how to use, with no training or good explanation on how to. - No life/work balance as you need to be aware if somebody send you a message, even on weekends and while you are on holidays.

2.0
Jan 23, 2021

Be careful if you're not in TikTok

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- High salary and excellent benefits.

Cons

- If you're joining ByteDance to work on something that isn't in TikTok think twice about it. ByteDance pursues lines of business outside and unrelated to TikTok which it doesn't understand. - Bureaucratic, preferring research and report writing over real market testing and validation.  - Incompetent managers with no relevant experience. - Hierarchical organization in which employees are seen and not heard. - No information sharing or teamwork. Communication occurs only when orders are issued. - Low quality talent. - Strong China bias. - No personal development.

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