ByteDance Responds to "Nearly Hundred-Million-Yuan Hired DeepSeek Core Employee": No Near-Hundred-Million-Yuan Annual Salary Employee Recruited Recently

BlockBeats News, April 16th – In response to rumors that ByteDance spent nearly 100 million yuan to poach former DeepSeek researcher Guo Daya, Li Liang, Vice President of Douyin, stated that the salary system for all Seed team technical members recruited by ByteDance is the same, including cash, Byte options, and Bean options. The options have a four-year vesting period, and there is no such thing as a “requirement to meet certain conditions to receive full benefits” situation. Recently, there have been no new employees recruited with an annual salary of nearly 100 million yuan. The future returns of Seed employees’ Byte and Bean options will fluctuate based on the option price. If the business develops well, it is not ruled out that some Seed technical members may receive returns reaching hundreds of millions of yuan after four years. (Yicai)