Do NOT join, even if you are jobless - Anonymous employee ByteDance Employee Review

-international presence, but still a very Chinese company. Mandarin speaking essential even though the role is not based in China. -Poorly structured organization with arbitrary job grading where there is no clear scope of job responsibilities -highly competitive culture where team members are pitted against one another, no collaboration or team work despite working toward a common goal/objective -they use their own software so a lot of inefficiencies that have not / are not being addressed. End up wasting time doing manual admin, time that could be spent doing more value added work -majority of employees primary goal is to ‘make it to the 6-month probation’ and you will question whether you still love doing what you were hired to do and have been doing before the company -waste of company resources on arbitrary ‘business trips’ where nothing substantial is accomplished, this takes time away from the actual job/ responsibilities that need to be looked after