Get away from it. - Anonymous employee ByteDance Employee Review

1.0
Jul 2, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The employees are exceptionally talented — top schools, advanced degrees, and high technical standards.

Cons

ByteDance has a toxic work culture that's hard to imagine unless you've experienced it firsthand. You push yourself to the limit, working long hours every day — late nights, weekends — and in the end, you might still get blamed and receive a poor performance review. That said, if your team doesn't need to interact with teams based in China or with expats sent from China, it can be a completely different story.

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