Do not join cost departments - Software Engineer ByteDance Employee Review

2.0
22 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Decent insurance and benefits - Relatively high bonus (25%+)

Cons

- A lot of internal competition between teams - Managers are clueless and give useless directions - A bunch of yes man in middle management pushing all responsibility to ICs - Need to justify your worth by finding problems that don't exist and try to solve them - Incompetent colleagues who got in through cronyism

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5.0
23 Apr 2026
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Pros

Great job, diversity culture, good colleague

Cons

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4.0
10 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is okay, generally competitive.

Cons

Long working hours, culture, rat race

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