Does ByteDance pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, ByteDance employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.0 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at ByteDance. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at ByteDance?

50% of ByteDance employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated ByteDance 2.7 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.1 for culture and values and 3.2 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at ByteDance?

Content Moderator (411) , Software Engineer (394) , Product Manager (143) , Intern (115) , Quality Analyst (79) , Senior Software Engineer (76) , Internship (67) , Quality Assurance (59) , Data Scientist (53) , Account Manager (52) , Quality Assurance Analyst (51) , Human Resources (46) , Software Engineer(Internship) (42) , Machine Learning Engineer (41) , Subject Matter Expert (SME) (41)

What are the pros of working at ByteDance according to real employee reviews?

"Good benefits and friends." ((in 406 reviews)); "Good salary and manager allows you to be independent in your work" ((in 321 reviews)); "The company has a lot of good colleagues and have a chance to execute various projects" ((in 209 reviews)); "basic pay is good" ((in 190 reviews)); "People there are nice and helpful" ((in 142 reviews))

What are the cons of working at ByteDance according to real employee reviews?

"No work life balance; expects to be on call even late at night; most of the documents are in mandarin" ((in 243 reviews)); "late working hours" ((in 177 reviews)); "some teams have high pressure" ((in 65 reviews)); "Not work life balance at all" ((in 50 reviews)); "Very bad managers and mentors that aren't willing to teach you." ((in 50 reviews))

What are employees saying about ByteDance layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about ByteDance layoffs and their outlook for job security at ByteDance in 2026.

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ByteDance reviews

3.4

50% would recommend to a friend

(4,239 total reviews)

Rubo Liang

59% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.0

Compensation and benefits

3.2

Diversity & inclusion

3.2

Career opportunities

3.1

Culture & values

2.8

Senior management

2.7

Work/Life balance

ByteDance has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 4,239 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ByteDance employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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4K reviews

4.0

May 20, 2022

Fast-paced, interesting projects, variable WLB, language barrier for non-Chinese speaker.

Senior software engineer

Recommend

Business Outlook

Pros

-Projects are interesting and fast-paced. You will learn a lot working here. -High expectations for senior engineers, you will have lots of opportunities to push your career. -Friendly coworkers, team culture seems pretty good. My team is very accommodating for me who doesn't speak Chinese and changes the primarily used language to English for a lot of projects that I am involved in. -Lots of tools to get past the language barrier (Also see cons). -Good compensation -Good benefits -Great onboarding process and internal tools.

Cons

-Even if you work in a primarily English-speaking team, a lot of core documentations are written in Chinese. Even with pretty good translation tools, it can be daunting at first. -Need to have flexible work hours if your team works closely with teams based in China. Could have lots of meetings in the evenings. -Mountain View office is not well developed currently. -Uncertain IPO

1.0

May 7, 2022

Toxic Culture and Leadership

Anonymous employee

Recommend

Business Outlook

Pros

N.A. none at all to mention.

Cons

Awful leadership which does not motivate or trust team. Very toxic. No oversight from head office so leaders can do whatever they want. Team was overworked and management (and HR) would not take any action against complaints about lead. Team and company had grown so much and so fast that there was no unique BD culture and values to anchor on. Given that it's on growth phase, it was probably easy to impress a not-so-involved head office with bottom line numbers to make a name for oneself at the expense of team. Also working style is not efficient or organized if only working on Lark. Bottom line: think twice before joining. Especially internal functions. Work method and toxic leadership may not bring out the best version of yourself.

2.0

Feb 13, 2022

sucks

Software engineer

Recommend

Business Outlook

Pros

talents around you big and famous highly paid

Cons

unfriendly working hours and get in a wrong team

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