Do not join if you do not know Chinese - Senior Software Engineer ByteDance Employee Review

1.0
2 July 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Compensation is quite good compared to other companies in Singapore.

Cons

- Need to know Chinese, meetings and documents are all in Chinese. I have no idea why they are hiring non Chinese speakers. It's just setting them up for failure. - Need to overwork. Chinese colleagues will work 996 and will be available all time. So you are expected to do the same.

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