ByteDance reviews

3.4

51% would recommend to a friend

(4,234 total reviews)
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58% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

ByteDance has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 4,234 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 Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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3.0
Jul 18, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Data-driven. The new product features came from data analytics. The product features experimented with A/B tests. Features were released to all of the users as long as they increased some of the critical product artifacts(e.g. user visit, user retention). - Good infrastructures. There were many infrastructures that improved the efficiency, such as A/B test, settings, a rich amount of 2nd-party components, and dev-ops. - Good documentation. I didn't love documenting until I entered this company. You could easily find answers to problems by simply searching the documents. The Lark Document was a great product. - Talent and hard-working coworkers. Most of the coworkers were friendly, talented, and hard-working, even the graduates. You always got motivated working with them.

Cons

- Heavy workload. The working hours were mostly from 10:30 A.M. to 10:30 P.M. I always left the office at 10:30 P.M. because so many tasks to finish every day. The company offered 3 meals, so you didn't have to leave the office. - Lack of manpower all the time. I often felt overwhelmed but didn't have coworkers to delegate some tasks. In hiring new employees, HR didn't help much, we were on our own. - Hard to finish work at the office. Distractions by meetings, instant chats, and coworkers all the time. I sometimes got started work after everyone left the office at night.

4.0
May 20, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Projects are interesting and fast-paced. You will learn a lot working here. -High expectations for senior engineers, you will have lots of opportunities to push your career. -Friendly coworkers, team culture seems pretty good. My team is very accommodating for me who doesn't speak Chinese and changes the primarily used language to English for a lot of projects that I am involved in. -Lots of tools to get past the language barrier (Also see cons). -Good compensation -Good benefits -Great onboarding process and internal tools.

Cons

-Even if you work in a primarily English-speaking team, a lot of core documentations are written in Chinese. Even with pretty good translation tools, it can be daunting at first. -Need to have flexible work hours if your team works closely with teams based in China. Could have lots of meetings in the evenings. -Mountain View office is not well developed currently. -Uncertain IPO

1.0
May 7, 2022

Toxic Culture and Leadership

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

N.A. none at all to mention.

Cons

Awful leadership which does not motivate or trust team. Very toxic. No oversight from head office so leaders can do whatever they want. Team was overworked and management (and HR) would not take any action against complaints about lead. Team and company had grown so much and so fast that there was no unique BD culture and values to anchor on. Given that it's on growth phase, it was probably easy to impress a not-so-involved head office with bottom line numbers to make a name for oneself at the expense of team. Also working style is not efficient or organized if only working on Lark. Bottom line: think twice before joining. Especially internal functions. Work method and toxic leadership may not bring out the best version of yourself.

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