BYTON - Stay Away!
I had a recent experience interviewing at Byton for an engineering role. MY GOD... it was a nightmare. After the on-site, they made a verbal offer and I was expecting a written offer in the next few days. A week went by and I received no response from HR nor the hiring manager. I decided to follow up, and to my surprise they mentioned they no longer have headcount for the team (probably because they just laid-off a bunch of people, which I later found out from somebody working there). At that point, I figured I would cut my losses and move on. About 2 weeks later the recruiter and hiring manager contacted me again asking if I was still interested in the position. Being a dumbass I am- I told them I would be. After a week of back and forth discussing about next steps, suddenly they no longer have headcount, again. I am wondering what type of company would deliberately do this to waste people's time, almost as if the Chinese are paying their HR just to screw with people in the US. Anyways, stay away from Byton (unless you like the chaos). I don't think the company will survive in the US.
Avoid Chinese companies. They love wasting your time
When you deal with a Chinese company, you’re effectively dealing with the Chinese government. Draw your own conclusions about efficiency and motives.
That’s not true. There are millions of Chinese companies, do you think government has power over each one of them? Government only care about companies that are important for economy or society.
It's normal for a startup, I bet there are just as many fucked up US startups
I think it's just the Chinese mindset. They don't care about employees
That's not true
Wtf is Byton?
Another Chinese backed start-up "attempting" to make an electric vehicle (Like NIO, Faraday Future, SF Motors...etc.)
What is SF motors? Doesn’t it look like a San Francisco company lol?