TikTok Software Engineer, Backend Intern reviews

Bad WLB, often needs to meet in the evening Bad documentation In the risk of being banned

- depending on the team, it can be very Chinese-oriented - a lot of documentation is in Chinese - heard from non-Chinese full-time team members that they feel less prioritised for promotions and salary raises compared to Chinese people - a lot of on-call duties - engineering culture does not seem very good (not much automated testing, rare refactoring, use of ourdated technology (objective-C instead of Swift)) - bad work-life balance (even in places where it's officially 10am to 7pm, it can be de facto 9am to 9pm) - no opportunities for learning (you're too busy working all the time)