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      ByteDance

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      ByteDance Software Developer reviews

      3.3

      40% would recommend to a friend

      (374 total reviews)
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      Rubo Liang

      42% approve of CEO

      45% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.0

      Compensation and benefits

      3.2

      Career opportunities

      2.6

      Culture & values

      2.6

      Diversity & inclusion

      2.5

      Senior management

      2.3

      Work/Life balance

      Software Developer employees have rated ByteDance with 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 374 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. ByteDance is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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      374 reviews
      2.0
      Jul 18, 2020

      Would recommend 5 years ago, but strongly discourage now.

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Pay was satisfactory. Advertised culture and values look good.

      Cons

      Work overtime daily. Work on Sunday every 2 weeks. Almost no personal life. Actual culture and values differ far from boasted in most teams. No engineer culture. Purely product oriented. Hard to get promoted. No annual salary raise. Management is in chaos. Goals change a lot (except core teams).

      4.0
      Jul 10, 2020

      compny

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      a very young and energetic company

      Cons

      hard to work and life balance

      1.0
      Jun 28, 2020

      Don't work here if you are an Engineer and not a Chinese speaker

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Smart coworkers, lunch and dinner provided

      Cons

      - Work-life balance is awful. Lots of impromptu meetings on the weekends with coworkers in China - Pretty much all major business decisions take place at the Chinese HQ, and these meetings are conducted in Chinese. You will feel very disconnected from the product and culture of the company if you are not a Chinese-speaker. - Little-to-no formal code review process; the company is more focused on short-term results than long-term maintenance. Bugs everywhere on the development pipeline with little documentation for them. They are reported through group chat and will only be addressed once coworkers in China have time on their hands (very rare). - Compensation isn't on-par with the rest of Silicon Valley

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