Chloe Shih

Well, honestly, one of them was in Chinese.

Like I wrote on my resume, I was bilingual.

And then like an hour before the interview, they're like, hey, are you cool with this interview being in Chinese?

Because TikTok is a Chinese company like ByteDance.

And I was like...

called my dad i'm like dad what is this word in chinese i was i was sweating through my pits it was it was ridiculous but i somehow passed and i don't know blocked out so so one one of your interviews was in chinese that's that's wild yeah she was like okay she can kind of listen like understand some english but she'll probably speak in chinese so it'll be half and half interesting what what what were the other interviews like

They were in English with mostly U.S.

because I was working in trust and safety product and a lot of them were already hired.

So I like met with the senior director of trust and safety and then directors of specific verticals and then my man, my potential hiring manager from China and HR.

Like, yeah.

It was crazy.

I think I'm kind of known for the person who quit TikTok.

I think that was like my first wave of publicity.

Like I think a lot of press article or a lot of media covered TikTok.

TikTok and how people were leaving and whatever toxic culture I think for me the messaging I had was actually it was a Chinese company and it was global and it had crazy hours and it just wasn't sustainable for me if I wanted a family like we would wake up 7 a.m our firm meetings with the UK and we had U.S.

meetings throughout 10 to 6 and then when 7 p.m 8 p.m 9 p.m hit that's when meetings in China would happen and

And then engineers don't start until 11 a.m.

local time in China.

So that's really late U.S.

time.