Why ByteDance is hiring a lot of people

Why has ByteDance been hiring?

In fact, to put it simply, the reason why a company recruits so many people is simply because: they can be used, they can be used, they can be recruited, and they can afford to recruit.

It can be used

The most fundamental reason for recruiting people is that the business has been developing, and new businesses are constantly coming out, and even entering new fields, the manpower cannot keep up, so Recruit people. Take a look at some of the developments listed by Byte in the past few days:

Including the Douyin Volcano Edition, Douyin’s daily active users have exceeded 600 million, and more than 22 million people have used Douyin in the past year. The total revenue of music exceeded 41.7 billion yuan. In the next year, Douyin hopes to help creators earn 80 billion yuan.

In terms of e-commerce business, the overall transaction volume of Douyin's "Wonderful Goods Festival" exceeded 8 billion, and the total number of views exceeded 10 billion.

In order to promote the professionalization of Chinese video creators, Xigua Video will spend at least 2 billion yuan to subsidize creators in the next year, and fully support the creation of high-quality Chinese videos through in-depth linkage with Douyin at the product level. people.

On October 29, 2020, Chen Lin, senior vice president of ByteDance and CEO of Dali Education, announced the establishment of an independent brand "Dali Education", with its business spanning Pre-K, K12, and adult education for multiple age groups. , covering multiple disciplines and courses, both software and hardware are explored. Currently, Dali Education has more than 10,000 employees.

In addition, businesses in vertical fields such as games, Feishu, and Dianchedi are all developing rapidly.

For example, education is an independent field that requires the cooperation of upstream and downstream industries from technology and products to teaching and research, operations, etc. Byte has invested more than 10,000 people in the education business alone, accounting for to one-tenth of the total. Byte is involved in more than ten fields. From this point of view, 100,000 people is not too many.

It’s useful

It’s useful. On the one hand, it means that the business is developing too fast, and people will not be left without work. On the other hand, a company with a scale of 100,000 people is also very difficult. It is difficult to manage, so many companies can only operate at a small scale.

Many people describe Byte's management as a "free-range model", recruiting the best people in the industry, and then giving them a lot of freedom to develop on their own.

The first is to delegate decision-making and encourage trial and error. For example, Douyin is a temporary team put together by a group of post-90s, interns, fresh graduates, and 24-year-old designers to quickly iterate in the exploding market. out;

The second is communication on an equal footing, without emphasizing hierarchy, so that innovative ideas can be fully expressed and adopted. This is also a major reason why many young people want to come to Byte;

The third is the application of management tools such as OKR, which is also the secret to the continuous and efficient operation of this large company.

Recruiting

Three years ago, ByteDance’s team only had more than 4,000 people, and three years later it will be close to 100,000 people. This kind of crazy growth rate of HR would be an impossible task without a continuous influx of candidates.

The conclusion of the "Lagou 2020 Internet Industry Autumn School Recruitment Trend Report" released some time ago shows that ByteDance has been the most popular Internet company for graduate delivery for three consecutive years, which also proves that this company is recruiting How hot it is in the market. Some people value its development prospects, some value the stability of the major platform, and some simply value salary and benefits. In short, everyone is either already at ByteDance or on the way to Byte for interviews.

Affordable

I won’t say much more about this.

Let me share with you some recruitment data:

In terms of business, ByteDance’s new jobs are mainly concentrated in emerging businesses such as education, games and e-commerce;

Geographically, in addition to first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, ByteDance is also continuously adding new facilities in second-tier cities such as Wuhan, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Xi'an, Xiamen, Chongqing, Taiyuan, and Zhengzhou. post.

Byte has R&D centers in Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Shenzhen and other cities, of which 4 have more than 4,000 employees. Those looking for a job can check out opportunities in multiple cities.

Finally, I wish you all good luck in job hunting and turn "other people's companies" into your own companies as soon as possible!