Inspire Creativity, Enrich Life

About Us
Founded in 2012, ByteDance is a technology
company operating a range of content platforms
that inform, educate, entertain, and inspire people
across languages, cultures, and geographies.

With a suite of more than a dozen products,

including TikTok, Douyin, Toutiao, Helo and Resso,
ByteDance now has a portfolio of applications
available in over 150 markets and 35 languages.
Our Mission
Inspire Creativity, Enrich Life
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At ByteDance, we find the

common variables that
connect our users' habits and
create new products,
Our Global strategies, and experiences to
Products reach them. We create
platforms that inform, educate,
entertain, and inspire people
across languages, cultures,
and geographies.
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Our Culture
Always Day 1
• Always maintain an entrepreneurial mindset. Keep pioneering and
innovating instead of relying on resources or past achievements.
• Stay agile and pursue efficiency and simplicity.
Reduce unnecessary procedures. 
• Reject complacency. Stay open and humble.

Champion Diversity and Inclusion

• Value individual differences, and focus on people's unique
strengths.
• Think global. Understand and celebrate different cultures, views,
and experiences.
• Facilitate effective collaboration by assuming good intent and
trusting by default. 

Be Candid and Clear

• Speak your mind. Expose problems candidly. Avoid "managing up".
• Be accurate, concise, and straightforward. Avoid overusing jargon
or elaborate terms.
• Drive communication and form conclusions with facts,
instead of assumptions or emotions.

Seek Truth and Be Pragmatic

• Be an independent thinker. Get to the bottom of things. Distill ideas
down to their fundamental truths.
• Dive deep into facts. Seek direct experience and first-hand data
and information.
• Be grounded and focus on real impact.

Be Courageous and Aim for the Highest

• Dare to take calculated risks for bigger gains, with a focus on
return on investment.
• Explore alternative solutions in a larger scope for the optimal
result.
• Insist on high standards. Don't just get the job done, execute with
excellence.

Grow Together
• Live and be driven by our mission and vision.
• Show patience and resilience in the face of short-term fluctuations.
Solve problems together.
• Keep learning, keep pushing boundaries. Pursue mutual growth with
the organization.
Life At ByteDance

“The nuturing and empowering work

culture at ByteDance is what motivates
me every day to come to work and give
my best.”

Daya Shaney
HR Business Partner
Mumbai, India

“As part of the operations team in TikTok, I

feel like a dream maker, realizing creators’
dreams. With TikTok, people can express
themselves using short videos, creating
new avenues for self-expression.”

Hiromi Ishida
Creator Partnerships
Tokyo, Japan

“There is no right or wrong approach, so

we have a lot of room to try new things and
really hone in on what works for everyone.
We push ourselves to be ambitious in
our thinking, and we’re always learning
something new.”

Toyin Mustapha
Global Music
London, United Kingdom
 “What makes ByteDance special is that
it is a startup, but with benefit of vast
resources.”

Pawel Barkowki
Platform Engineer
Warsaw, Poland

“Be open-minded, chase new challenges,

and always continue learning. The opportunity
to do this is the most valuable thing ByteDance
has offered me since joining.”

Tian Li
Marketing
São Paulo, Brazil

“The best part of working at ByteDance

is getting to know users and
understanding better how we, as a
company, can create a platform where
they feel comfortable being themselves.”

Daniela Genie
Creator and Partnership Management
Los Angeles, United States
Inspire Creativity,
Enrich Life

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