Better than reputation - Senior Software Engineer ByteDance Employee Review

3.0
19 June 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. Very pragmatic. Not a lot of office politics. 2. Lots of stuff to do and learn. 3. Hardworking colleagues in general. 4. Good food. 5. Competitive pay.

Cons

1. Not easy for non-Mandarin speakers/readers. 2. Worse-than-average tech stack. 3. Huge workload. Terrible WLB. 4. Quality bar is relatively low.

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