Same old story. First they hire aggressively to support their dreams of international expansion. Attractive pay, highly skilled team members from renowned companies, but no product or processes in place. Next we build everything from scratch--products, processes, strategy, implementation. 997 culture is real as they push us to build the foundation of pretty much everything. A few months in, it's evident that they're in a rush for us to deliver and reach unattainable goals. Once that's all done... Finally, they lay us all off and reroute operations and control to Beijing, while still keeping the appearances of having regional HQ in Singapore. I'm tired of this. With that said, does anyone have any referrals to non-Chinese companies? MANGA, any unicorns. Netflix would be great--there's a role there in aiming for. Most of the colleagues who are impacted have working rights in Singapore. We're also more than open to remote roles. Additional info: we're in management and leadership. TC: 400K YOE: 15 #singapore #layoff #referral
No way bytedance is laying off. I got 3 recruiter emails this month
I have a strong suspicion that a good number of recruiter emails from bytedance to American workers is to get their employees green cards (they have to pretend that they looked to hire someone authorized to work already in the US before sponsoring a green card). Once I sent my resume, which btw only 1/10 recruiters asks for their companies, they ghost me
400k tC? Which company?
Not Airwallex, but happy if you could share a referral!
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Chinese companies operate with China centric model to buy expensive expertise from abroad. So, this is expected.
Anyone with sense would know not to work at a Chinese company. What happened to you is literally the playbook. You forgot to mention the IP theft though. Best of luck to you. You are at least in a better position now since so many companies hire remotely.
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Bytedance is laying off in Singapore? But I saw so many openings
I'm not in Bytedance anymore. That one was the most stable by far, but again, it had record breaking success. Might have taken the same route if it hadn't performed well.
I mean isn't the obvious answer just going back to ByteDance? This is like leaving Google to multiple series A startups and then complaining that all those startups kept failing