I am in the final stage of the interview process with ByteDance/TikTok; I believe they plan to make me an offer as soon as next Friday and I am not sure what comp I should be asking for. I am a SE2, have three years industry experience at Microsoft, and a fairly competitive resume vis-a-vis schooling and extracurricular projects (hackathons). Any advice would be greatly appreciated! #compensation #pay #tiktok #bytedance #offer
Still talking about schooling and extracurricular projects after alleged 3 year industry experience. WTF? 🚩 🚩 🚩
"competitive resume" "hackathons" lol
I mean I have industry experience and non-industry experience on my resume? Is that bad? At what point should I remove all the pre-industry stuff? I included the hackathons because I did well in them which seems good?
Can they pay 500k for 4 YOE?
Which company can pay that much?
Top comment said add 50% to what you’d like to make. So I just did 350k*1.5. F/G can pay this much for 4 YOE
TC YOE
If I applied via referral this weekend, when can I expect to hear from the recruiter? or at what point should I assume they’re not moving forward?
They were really quick getting back to me during the interview process, < 3 days for all replies. They initiated the hiring process by reaching out to me though, so I am not sure how long it will take for them to reach out the first time. Good Luck!
It took 2 weeks for me via referral.
On a tangent here: How many rounds of interviews did you have? And what did the the entire process look like? Thanks!
Three rounds of technical interviews and one of culture match. The only pain point of the process is that some of the interviews are at night because the interviewers are in China.
Are you Chinese? If not, any difficulty with culture fit interview?
Do you know the level of position you are applying for? 2-2?
This is very important
is 2-2 basically L4 and 3-1 L5?
Could you please share the type of questions in each round of interview ?
ByteDance pays shit with horrible WLB...how ridiculous is that vesting schedule?
Worse than FB?
I think compare with FB, bd pay more with same wlb
I haven't heard any Chinese companies with great wlb. Let's hope it's an exception for bytedance. BTW, I am still banned in your product by saying Kim Jong Un is an idiot.
We are the most valuable pre-IPO tech company in the world. So, if you're the real deal, take whatever number you'd like to make and add 50%. If u think you didn't crush your interview loop (pay bands are calculated by interview score and yoe) adjust that % accordingly
I couldn’t get a good offer. I saw them poaching FAANG and I had previous experience in the space at a FAANG (pre-Walmart) and they couldn’t beat many of the offers I got.
I will say that they do offer great cash compensation, but less equity than a lot of other places.