Good pay - no work life balance - Senior Program Manager ByteDance Employee Review

2.0
Nov 3, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

decent pay / decent bonus

Cons

- Chinese culture - overworking / no work life balance - processes are hard to follow - veru clunky - most documents are written in chinese and then translated - meetings switch from english to chinese hard to follow - lots of politics - leads set impossible tasks / do not want to increase headcount

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