TikTok reviews

A Masterclass in Terrible Management and Toxic Culture If you want to experience the absolute worst in corporate exploitation, look no further than TikTok. Here’s what you’re signing up for: Work Like a Machine, Get Rated Like Trash – Expect to work 24/7, push beyond limits, and still be blindsided by terrible performance ratings. No matter what you achieve, your manager’s mood decides your fate. Performance Reviews Are a Joke – Hard work, dedication, and results mean nothing. Your rating is based on favoritism, office politics, and how well you please your manager—not your actual contributions. Zero Growth, Zero Mentorship – Don’t expect any real training or career development. You’re on your own. HR is Useless – Raise a concern, and they’ll pretend to listen. But don’t hold your breath for actual action. They exist to protect management, not employees. A Culture of Burnout and Fear – The work environment is built on unrealistic expectations, poor leadership, and a complete disregard for employee well-being. In short, if you want to master corporate survival skills, this is the place—you’ll develop a thick skin, a caffeine addiction, and an exit strategy real quick. Consider yourself warned.

Where do I begin? Poor leadership (constant reshuffles in teams/ roles/ leaders). They have no idea of a strategy and constantly change orgs. You will never have an opportunity to see your hard work bear fruit. Over hiring/ imbalanced workload: you will see some people barely doing any work and getting by, whereas others slogging and dying. All within the same team. People management here is an absolute joke. Toxic environment: Ties back to the first point on leadership. Leaders here are incompetent mostly. They have no clue what they are doing, no long term vision, no people management skills, no workload distribution/ management skills. People who suck up flourish and those who just focus on delivering on OKRs get crushed regardless. Top down structure: you will rarely get an opportunity to be innovative here. Projects and workload is all top down and you can’t say no even if you don’t agree with the direction. And to top it all off, the the deadlines are an absolute joke. Perf ratings: just do a quick google about their perf ratings. Most of it is true. You’ll likely develop anxiety because of the rating system here. Poor professional practices: a new joiner would expect a solid onboarding period + any training if required. They attract talented people with good pay packages, but after that you’re on your own. Couple that with the points above and you’ll likely fail in your job or get crushed with a sea of documents and trying to find your way. Documentation by departments such as HR/ employee policies etc is good. But aside to that, within teams on R&Rs etc doesn’t exist. So good luck finding your way around!