Do not join cost departments - Software Engineer ByteDance Employee Review

2.0
Jan 22, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Decent insurance and benefits - Relatively high bonus (25%+)

Cons

- A lot of internal competition between teams - Managers are clueless and give useless directions - A bunch of yes man in middle management pushing all responsibility to ICs - Need to justify your worth by finding problems that don't exist and try to solve them - Incompetent colleagues who got in through cronyism

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