TikTok reviews

3.2

42% would recommend to a friend

(6,233 total reviews)
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Shou Zi Chew

61% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

TikTok has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 6,233 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The TikTok 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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6K reviews
1.0
Aug 19, 2020

Very LONG hours!

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Exciting and fun products -Everyone is still figuring things out together - Lean hierarchy

Cons

- Very very long working hours (literally 9am-12midnight + weekends); not very attractive if you compare to the other big tech firms who cares about your wellbeing. -everything is on chat, not email so people expect you to reply instantly. Thousands of pings every day? - nobody gives you time to onboard; they expect you to be a genius the moment you join.

2.0
Aug 22, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Generous AL ( be careful if you leave midyear and you will be punished for taking AL and they take their money back) - Dental and Health insurance

Cons

The company lacks transparency during hiring in their procedures such as salary and pay cut offs. They discourage individuals from talking to each other about their salaries as it appears to be different for everyone. Management does not care about employees and only worry about metric and pushing business. Work hours are long, and there is little support when it comes to some of the gruesome content you may be exposed to. The company tried to offer food services but have contracted bad companies where people stop eating office food due to getting sick all the time (little done to rectify the situation). They expect people to be in the office till midnight, and do not care to help with transportation if you leave outside London (ie taxi only restricted to London boroughs). Several people would ask to work from home during the late cycles and they would not accept requests or care about safety. Things keep changing for the worst, from forcing people to work in the office during late shifts, poor wellness support, micromanaging, being ‘punished’ for being rotad off on office days as you have to make up the day. This is truly been a nighmare working for them. They do not care about anyone’s mental health.

1.0
Feb 11, 2020

A Chinese prison

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

TikTok on your CV - gets you headhunted on LinkedIn oh and you occasionally meet a famous person in the office.

Cons

Where to begin? A toxic environment with zero trade-off. Forget working from home or creative freedom. You will be put in your box and told to stay in it. No career progression however having the name on your CV does get you headhunted. For a fun and social app, internally it is soul destroying and motivationally crippling.

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