ByteDance reviews

- PMs and managers have insane expectations for delivery times and quantity of work - Due to this, you are expected to work basically every evening, late at night, and often over the weekend - Meetings with teammates in China are always China time, so nearly every evening is filled with meetings, meaning even without insane work expectations you are expected to work 10am-10pm 7 days a week just for meetings - If you are not Chinese, all your coworkers will look down on you and you will be constantly treated as lesser and subject to increased scrutiny for everything you do, and it will be extremely obvious in many cases. I am the only member of my team that is required to have my code reviewed, for example - Similarly, if you don't speak and read Chinese you need to use autotranslate for nearly everything, including tons of important documentation that doesn't really translate well from such disparate languages. Most meetings will also be held in Chinese, meaning you will rely on both voice recognition and autotranslate for hour+ long meetings that are mandatory. - About 1/3 of the 'total compensation' for the position is in bonus and stock. The bonus is performance based so they'll pay you as little as they want and the stock is useless because ByteDance isn't a publicly traded company yet so you can only sell back to the company for a fraction of the value

Unethical, unprofessional company, explointment of work laws until their maximum: -change your contract overnight, pressuring people to sign or quit -work on weekends, holidays, nights, shift rotations with weekly changes -Not a good pay check. Even the public sector in Germany pays better. -No work-life balance. Irresponsible management. Extremely unethical HR, -managers are spoiled kids with no people management experience, destroying 70% of the team, making rest of the employees to lose their motivation, -not face paced, just chaotic: decisions from HQ in China follow no logical structure, change overnight -“Changes take time” but suck it up: supervisor promote their friends and leak personal information -“We value every talent” There are no chances to change from jobs/promotion inside of the company. HR just straight lie about it. -HR do not lose any problem inside of the company. -The arrogant and inexperienced supervisor -Fire employees on sick leave, holidays, before crucial dead lines