While tech companies across the world are making the tough decision to lay off staff, ByteDance is reportedly going on a global hiring spree.
ByteDance, the Chinese social media conglomerate and parent company of TikTok, is hiring for 10,000 new positions worldwide, according to Bloomberg, citing an internal website for candidate referrals.
ByteDance didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from Built In.
The report says that ByteDance has 158 job openings for its Mountain View office, which is the company’s biggest hiring push in a non-Chinese city. A significant portion of these jobs is for roles in engineering, product and operations, but the company is hiring for other roles too.
ByteDance has been steadily increasing its U.S. presence over the past year. In January, the company opened a new TikTok office in Los Angeles with room for 1,000 employees.
But TikTok isn’t the only brand that ByteDance is expanding. According to the report, the global hiring spree includes a significant push into gaming and e-commerce, which are new fields for the social media giant.
Besides TikTok, ByteDance also owns content discovery platform TouTiao, collaboration tool Lark, Indian social media platform Helo as well as several others.
With this hiring push, ByteDance hopes to reach 100,000 employees globally, which would give the company about the same number of employees as another Chinese tech giant — Alibaba. Overall, the company reportedly believes it’s on track to hire 40,000 people in 2020.
