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 been stable over the past 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 2.6 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.1 for culture and values and 3.3 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at ByteDance?

Content Moderator (411) , Software Engineer (396) , Product Manager (143) , Intern (116) , Quality Analyst (79) , Senior Software Engineer (77) , 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 salary and manager allows you to be independent in your work" ((in 329 reviews)); "The company has a lot of good colleagues and have a chance to execute various projects" ((in 211 reviews)); "basic pay is good" ((in 195 reviews)); "People there are nice and helpful" ((in 139 reviews)); "Teams are great." ((in 138 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 237 reviews)); "late working hours" ((in 180 reviews)); "high pressure with no time to spend with life" ((in 73 reviews)); "Managers have tons of power and quick visa sponsorship." ((in 52 reviews)); "Not work life balance at all" ((in 49 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

(4,249 total reviews)

Rubo Liang

59% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.0

Compensation and benefits

3.3

Career opportunities

3.2

Diversity & inclusion

3.1

Culture & values

2.8

Senior management

2.6

Work/Life balance

ByteDance has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 4,249 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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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Reviews by job title

4K reviews

4.0

Sep 30, 2025

Giant Company

Fullstack developer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Tech stack is updated very soon

Cons

Not international, deep inside a Chinese company7

4.0

Sep 30, 2025

Long working hours

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Good with colleagues, most of who are smart

Cons

Long working hours, which harm wlb

5.0

Sep 30, 2025

good scope of work and less optics management

Tech strategy consultant

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

good scope of work and less optics management

Cons

churn and ambiguity, lack of bottom-up culture

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Jobs at ByteDance

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Student Researcher (LLM - Seed) - 2027 Start (BS/MS)

Machine Learning Engineer Intern (E-Commerce Knowledge Graph - CV/Multimodal/NLP) - 2026 Summer (BS/MS)

Student Researcher - (Seed Infra-Compiler) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)