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?

51% 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 (395) , Product Manager (145) , 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 you have the chance to work with the seniors" ((in 322 reviews)); "The company has a lot of good colleagues and have a chance to execute various projects" ((in 215 reviews)); "basic pay is good" ((in 191 reviews)); "People there are nice and helpful" ((in 132 reviews)); "Teams are great." ((in 124 reviews))

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

"TT no work life balance good if you don't want any relationships work like brainless human long work hour spent 8" ((in 239 reviews)); "late working hours" ((in 179 reviews)); "some teams have high pressure" ((in 74 reviews)); "Long hours and lots of work" ((in 61 reviews)); "Very bad managers and mentors that aren't willing to teach you." ((in 53 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.

ByteDance reviews

3.4

51% would recommend to a friend

(4,260 total reviews)

Rubo Liang

59% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

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ByteDance has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 4,260 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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4K reviews

3.0

Aug 18, 2023

Terrible stress and work life balance

Software engineer - storage

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Learned a lot from starter, from designing systems to implementations.

Cons

Changed leader for several times and the business orientation is not quite clear.

5.0

Aug 18, 2023

Full of different cultures and fun experiences, but has it's cons

Community content management specialist

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- Pretty good remuneration - Fun work culture - A lot of young faces, close to no office politics among the younger gen - A lot of activities and events conducted by the teams in the company - Prize packages for holidays and company/department anniversaries - It was fun at first

Cons

- Then a new team lead came in and undid every good thing we had - Depending on the team, it can vary between super good and absolute hell - Shift rotation - Management can sometimes be unempathetic and uncaring

1.0

Aug 10, 2023

No WLB

Program manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

if you like to travel, you'll be going to many off-sites.

Cons

Strong Chinese culture. Efforts are never good enough. startups are more stable than this company. No work-life balance.

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