Bytedance, the parent company of tiktok, a social video app based in Beijing, is expanding in the United States with 44000 square feet of offices in Bellevue, Washington.
The space is sublet by enterprise technology giant sap in the key central office building in downtown Bellevue and is the company’s first official outpost in Seattle.
The work list and employee files confirm that it is an engineering center. Bytedance currently lists more than 40 vacant positions in Seattle, mainly in the fields of algorithm engineering, IOS and Android application development, e-commerce technology, back-end and front-end software engineering and network engineering.
According to geekwire’s tracking, bytedance has established an engineering center in Seattle in cooperation with more than 130 foreign technology companies.
The new location will allow Bidens to recruit engineers from other technology giants in the region. According to the latest news from LinkedIn, bytedance has hired engineering, research and product leaders in Seattle from Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and other companies in recent months.
The new office is the latest sign that the dispute over tiktok in the United States has basically subsided a few hours after tiktok was closed by then president Donald Trump. Popular social applications continue to grow rapidly, recently reaching 1 billion users per month.
As reported by Puget Sound Business magazine in August, bitdens has been actively recruiting in the region over the past few months. However, it is not clear until now whether the company plans to open a real office in the region, which is no longer guaranteed in the era of remote work.
In a market summary, Broderick group, a commercial real estate brokerage, pointed out that subletting is part of the summary of recent transactions. The representative of bytedance did not respond to a request for comment on the new office. Informed real estate agents said they had no right to provide more details.
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Check the Seattle regional engineering center established by foreign companies listed by geekwire.
When visiting the key center on Tuesday morning, geekwire found the bytedance logo and name on the frosted glass on the locked door on the upper floor of the building. Behind the glass, you can see the hall and conference room, and a bytedance promotion video is playing on the display screen on the inner wall. No one answered the knock.
SAP sublets the office to bytedance, the parent company of concur, a cost management technology company headquartered in Bellevue.
In response to geekwire’s inquiry about sublease, SAP said that “we are committed to the greater Seattle area and provide employees with flexible job options as part of our commitment to flex. We have made a strategic decision to sublease part of the key center. We do not comment on specific lease agreements.”
According to the traditional office space guidelines, 44000 square feet of space can accommodate up to 200 people. However, it depends on the configuration. Considering the requirements of social distance and the use of landing space by employees who may spend a week at home, the configuration becomes more uncertain in the influenza pandemic.
Bytfrices also has offices in U.S. cities, including Mount view, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin and Chicago. The company’s headquarters in the United States is located in Culver, California. The company also operates news platform headlines in China, social media platform helo in India and cooperative application lark in Japan and Singapore.
Bytedance has joined a growing number of technology companies and set up offices in the growing city of Bellevue east of Seattle. Amazon led this trend, partly because of the dissatisfaction of businesses with Seattle leaders. Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, said last week that the company now takes the Puget Bay region as its “hq1” headquarters.
As president trump threatened to ban tiktok in the United States for privacy and security reasons, Microsoft is negotiating with bytedance to acquire the operations of popular social video applications in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Finally, tiktok reached a partnership with Oracle and Wal Mart, but it was shelved by the Biden government earlier this year.
Satya NADELLA, chief executive of Microsoft, recently called the tiktalk negotiations the strangest thing he had ever done. Brad Smith, President of Microsoft, said that if Chinese government leaders can solve problems such as network security, data privacy and false information, Microsoft’s planned arrangement may provide a blueprint for the operation of Chinese technology companies in the United States.