What it does: Technology company operating a range of content platforms that inform, educate, entertain and inspire people across languages, cultures, and geographies.
Best known for: Artificial intelligence-powered apps including TikTok, Douyin, and news aggregator Jinri Toutiao.
Staff stats: over 60,000 employees
The good bits: Provides insurance, health, and wellness for all employees. Free food is available including breakfast, lunch, and dinner 5 days a week. Vacation/personal days leave for 15 days, sick time for 7 days, and also paternity and maternity leave. Other facilities, such as gym/wellness reimbursement of $60 per year, gym discount, and gender-neutral bathrooms.
The not-so-good bits: Long working hours up to 12 hours a day and a high-pressure environment.
ByteDance is a technology company operating a range of content platforms that inform, educate, entertain and inspire people across languages, cultures, and geographies. Dedicated to building global platforms of creation and interaction, ByteDance now has a portfolio of applications available in over 150 markets and 75 languages. Examples are TikTok, Helo, Vigo Video, Douyin, and Huoshan.
We have offices in 126 cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo. As of November 2019, ByteDance has over 60,000 employees and 15 research and development centers around the globe.
ByteDance's platforms aim to help users explore and discover the world's creativity, knowledge, and moments that matter in everyday life while empowering everyone to be a creator directly from their smartphones. We are committed to building a safe, healthy, and positive online environment for all our users. We welcome people from all backgrounds to join us. If tackling challenges in a fast-changing industry does not scare you, work with us and challenge yourself to move the world!
ByteDance is committed to making the digital life of billions of people become more beautiful, efficient, and interesting. The company believes that high ethical standards and a culture of integrity play a pivotal role in achieving the vision.
Candidates must apply for the job opportunity from ByteDance job website. You have to follow the requirements and send your cv/resume through the website.
ByteDance will contact you for further interviews. Candidates will be required to complete an initial assessment, followed by 3 to 5 interviews depending on the requirements of the role. There are two types of interviews: technical and non-technical interviews. After each round, ByteDance will gather feedback from the interviewers and determine the next steps.
Lots of career growth opportunities may be discussed with ByteDance to help employees build on their academic and professional experiences.
The salaries are different based on the job role. It started from about $140k for Marketing, $157k for Product Designer, $199k for Software Engineer and Data Scientist, up to $609k for Software Engineer Manager.
ByteDance believes in several fundamental corporate cultures and represents the principles of employees. We aim for the highest perspective and idea to keep learning and growing. We also are grounded, courageous, open, humble, candid, and clear in our work. We always treat our days like day 1 which makes us more initiative and resilient. ByteDance welcomes everyone as they are and supports diversity and inclusion.
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