After the ByteDance organization is upgraded, the education business may become a new focus.
In the early hours of this morning, Chen Lin, senior vice president of ByteDance, posted on social media that he explained in detail the original intention, philosophy and vision of ByteDance's education.
Chen Lin said that the current ByteDance education business is still recruiting more than 10,000 people this year, and welcomes outstanding talents who are interested in breakthrough innovation, globalization, and integration of software and hardware education.
According to media reports, during the 2020 ByteDance Spring Campus Recruitment, the education business will provide more than 1,500 positions for fresh students, covering teaching and research, products, research and development and other fields.
Yesterday, ByteDance Global CEO Zhang Yiming said in the eighth anniversary letter that the education business will be the new business direction he focuses on. "Next, I will resume the interview and observation of education."
Speaking of the highly competitive online tutoring market, Zhang Yiming said, "I'm actually not anxious and patient. I think it's still very early. The education business must have more fundamental innovations, of course, provided we have a deeper understanding. . "
"Especially for companies that already have a successful business, starting a new business is not easy, there is inertia and inertia. Bold attempts in new areas are an important sign of always starting a business."
In the past few years, ByteDance has continued to explore in the education field, and has successively launched GoGokid, a one-to-one foreign education product, and Qingbei Online School, an online tutoring and education product for primary and secondary schools.
The current exploration of ByteDance's education business spans pre-k, k12, multi-age education for adult education.
Chen Lin mentioned that an ideal education product should have the best teachers. It is necessary to achieve breakthroughs in products and technology, as well as breakthroughs in the combination of software and hardware. "It must be good enough and easily accessible."
He said that the vision of ByteDance's education business is "innovative education for everyone", which is also the answer to "why education".