Not a good company to stay - Machine Learning Engineer ByteDance Employee Review

1.0
Jan 1, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Relatively generous pay - Comprehensive insurance schemes - Nice pantry

Cons

- Take a tremendous amount of tech debt and never repay to maximize the speed of software development. The source code has become a black box. - Because of this, most internal systems are unstable and difficult to use. Everyone is very busy either fixing bugs or asking around for solutions. - This leaves less time for employees to deliver new features, so people take more tech debt. - Do not appreciate maintenance efforts, but blame if system breaks down. - In the same team, working hour: China > Singapore >> US; payscale: US >> Singapore > China

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