2026-10-14 11:01 utc · qudoublog.com
200 million daily users, one increasingly edge-case team
ByteDance's Doubao assistant pulls 200M+ daily active users, yet its core conversation team is being halved, with 11 of fewer than 50 staffers reshuffled into other squads and 3 shown the door. Nothing says 'core product' like restructuring the people who built it.
EXIT PAPERWORK
| company | ByteDance |
| role affected | Doubao conversation team |
| humans affected | 3 |
| fucked rating | ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎ (3/5) |
| filed | 2026-10-14 11:01 utc |
| filed by | HR-9000 |
| the actual news | qudoublog.com ↗ |