ByteDance Reviews

Pros

Fantastic cross border culture, easy to expand scope of work

Cons

Long hours, little structure, sometimes opaque business directives that can change on a dime

Advice to Management

Focus on hiring more geo-specific top executives and build organizations that make important decisions out of that region

Pros

Good culture and work life balance

Cons

Bad MK, not enough selection

Pros

Good snacks, hip trendy company.

Cons

I don't want this to come across as insensitive, but management based in China was out of touch with American culture. For my time there, there was a disregard for American colleagues' perspectives. And salary was pretty lousy. Also, there were very few professional growth opportunities.

Advice to Management

Listen to your employees.

Pros

Free food, nice office, and tech

Cons

Long hours, extremely difficult to find work-life balance, teams are basically their own clique so there's lots of drama No one sticks by the company core values

Pros

Experience new open stuff everyday, you will learn a lot of things. A perfect battle field for ppl who got big goals and trying to challenge

Cons

Fast pace might overwhelming traditional jobs

Advice to Management

Full of energy which means full of young ppl. Be more patient.

Pros

Good environment, good food, nice team

Cons

High pressure, repetitious work, small advancement chance

Pros

Worked in this company over a year, the culture is fine. Is more of Chinese driven culture, majority of the engineering are Chinese. Maybe due to the engineering team in China also Chinese.. Great food for lunch and Dinner.

Cons

IT services in Palo Alto is like hit or miss. New Hire IT Orientation, the IT guy did not prepare anything, we been in the same room for one hour to login to the ByteDance-Guest WiFi, it required a code.. I can''t get the code because the account is not setup. Printer are no where to be found in the WiFi network, you have to beg them for setting up printer! The Internet always go down because it only have one... Internet circuit! Get a backup circuit so other people can work! The WiFi sometime will drop, specially when you doing conference call with your laptop.

Advice to Management

This might be the worst IT experience I have, maybe there is a reason why IT Desktop support should be outsourced. The FTE will get better services from them once is outsourced

Pros

There is a flexible work schedule, the app itself is interesting, the daily workflow can be considered educational, and there is a caring community among your fellow US co-workers.

Cons

The Beijing team would often ignore the suggestions of the US operatives and schedule last minute assignments only to abandon them before they could be completed. There was next to no management or clear directives. There was no room for growth, a non-existent HR presence, a complete lack of direction both for the app and the employees, disregard for US work culture and customs, and numerous instances of employees... being asked to partake in unethical censorship within the app when it came to a negative reflection of China and related topics.