Former TikTok employees speak out against the global social media company’s stressful work culture (updated)

This story was originally published on Passionfruit.

“So I’m sure most of you TikTokers have no idea what’s going on behind the scenes of this app,” Dylan Juhnke, a former brand partnerships manager at TikTok, said in a now-deleted video.

Across the web, a number of former TikTok employees have posted their reasons for leaving the social media giant. It’s a peek behind the scenes of a fast-growing, elusive company still defining itself on the international stage. 

“Bytedance, the parent company of TikTok, is striving to be an international company, but at this stage of their journey of growth, they are very much still a Chinese tech company in the way they think and operate,” former employer branding partner Jamie Lim Yin Yin said in a YouTube video.

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