Bytedance layoffs: Toutiao, Douyin, Feishu and others have optimized quotas for various positions involving product research and development

Jianemian News learned from many people familiar with the matter that ByteDance has started layoffs. According to many estimates, the company's overall optimization scale is about 10. Each business line has basically confirmed its optimization goals. Employees in Toutiao, Douyin, Feishu, Tiktok, Commercialization, Data, Dianchedi and other business lines have received layoff notices. In addition, the layoffs involve multiple positions including R&D, product, and operations.

After the performance evaluation in October this year, there are already signs of ByteDance’s current round of layoffs. After the performance evaluation, low-performing employees successively receive individual conversation notifications from HR or their direct leaders.

Judging from the current layoffs, Feishu is the hardest hit area. From the end of performance evaluation in October to early December, Feishu's headcount decreased by more than 1,000 people, a decrease of more than 10%, and layoffs are continuing. A Feishu employee said that when his direct boss communicated with him, Feishu said that layoffs would happen sooner or later, and that he was ready to leave. He advised him that it would be better to leave early.

In addition to Feishu, there are also data, middle office and other business lines that have determined the proportion of layoffs.

In fact, many employees with normal performance have also resigned on their own recently. The reasons for their resignation are mostly related to excessive work involution and excessive consumption.

In the past two years, ByteDance has significantly expanded its staff size, with more than 100,000 employees at its peak. The explosive growth of ByteDance’s employee base is directly related to the expansion of new businesses, and is also related to ByteDance’s corporate culture of “making miracles happen with great effort”. Previously, Jiemian News had published an article titled "Why is ByteDance still recruiting aggressively?" 》Analyzed the corporate culture of ByteDance and the problems caused by corporate culture: increasing the talent redundancy rate during recruitment, that is, recruiting more outstanding talents. There is no clear division of work. As long as others have the willingness and ability, they can I can take your job anytime. ByteDance tries to maximize its subjective initiative in this way. Every employee is insecure and instigates the company's business to achieve rapid results.

The other side of rapid recruitment is rapid layoffs. When business development does not meet expectations, ByteDance will conduct large-scale layoffs. Because the development of education, gaming and other businesses is not as expected, ByteDance has carried out significant layoffs in these two business lines in the past year. This year, ByteDance's overall revenue is lower than expected. ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo has repeatedly emphasized "reducing fat and increasing thinness" within the company. On the one hand, ByteDance has significantly reduced its recruitment plan for 2022-2023, and is also shrinking various departments. The size of the business line.

This month, Liang Rubo once again stated at the company's all-staff meeting that he would continue to "de-fat and increase", and then there was news that ByteDance would start a new round of layoffs.

As of press time, ByteDance officials have not responded to the scale and progress of this round of layoffs.