There is no shortage of posts and people asking about TikTok/ByteDance culture and answers regarding whether or not BD might be a good choice, but I haven't seen a lot of comments about Ali or Tencent and would like to compare! Thoughts appreciated, thank you!
BD is known for having the best culture in China. Ali and Tencent are significantly more political and they are less inclined to globalize. I did interview with Ali New York. It was very weird.
Actually Bytedance is famous for bad culture in China now. It was a lie back then and now more and more ppl realized it.
Tencent is the worst place to work for. No wlb and decent human concern for their peers. Too much into political stuff and saving their job. Teammates don’t care about you and working along with them has been grueling experience so far. I don’t know why I even signed up here.
I left Tencent to join meta last year. Tencent culture is quite weird. Multiple teams working on the same Task. And compete with each others and teammates compete each others. IMHO, It’s the most toxic work environment. The only thing can’t complain about is the compensation. I got 140% of my promised TC in the first year.
Just curious, are you team located locally? Or back in China?
Do tencent and ali have US office? Didn't know what before.
Yes. But very very small and not a focus at all for them. I’m not familiar with Chinese companies at all (only knew of ByteDance when they called because of Tiktok), but I have a colleague that came from Tencent and shared more context on this before.