The worst management ever - Anonymous employee TikTok Employee Review

1.0
Oct 26, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits are just average: health insurance, dental insurance, cycle to work scheme, lunch and snacks, paid sick leave.

Cons

No job-level framework is available, so if you are hoping to grow in this company, just forget it. Promotions, job level adjustments, salary adjustments, and pay raises are assigned merely on how much of a bootlicker you are. Because if you dare complain or ask for an explanation you will be censored and accused of bringing negativity to the team (true story). RTO increased to 3 days a week and is likely to increase even more shortly. Micromanagement at its finest: with office attendance trackers. for example. They just retired the gym reimbursement, replacing it with a list of partner gyms (and no, none of them are in your neighbourhood, in case you were wondering). Toxic environment: lack of communication, lack of trust, total absence of employee growth, gaslighting, team building budget managed by one person (and nobody knows for what it is being spent), team burnout, disengagement, high turnover.

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2.0
Jun 15, 2026
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Pros

Pay is level with industry and actual work is somewhat interesting depending on the team you're on

Cons

In my experience, career growth can feel very limited if you are not part of the dominant internal language and cultural network. A significant amount of important context, communication, and decision-making happens in Chinese, which can make non-Chinese-speaking employees feel excluded from key conversations and promotion opportunities. The environment did not feel as inclusive as it should be for a global company. Advancement often felt less tied to performance and more tied to whether you were connected to the right groups or able to operate fluently within the Chinese-speaking side of the organization. Over time, it felt like non-Chinese-speaking employees had fewer long-term career paths and were at risk of being replaced by people who could better fit that internal operating model. Things also move very slowly because employees are often given access only to the bare minimum needed to do their jobs. There is a heavy push toward using AI tools, but in practice it can make it harder to get help from real people. Instead of getting quick support, you often have to spend time going through AI bots or internal tools before getting a useful answer.

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