Apparently all 500-ish employees of Tokopedia India might be at risk of layoff since the Bytedance acquisition? Are there any GoTo/ Tokopedia folks here who can comment?

Source: ecommurz (Indonesian tech gossip account) forum / insta story

11mo ago

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SwirlyTaco

Stealth11mo

This is incorrect.

Bytedance still has significant employee presence in India. Estimated 3K employees.

Most of them are in the Quality teams that screen and flag content on TikTok for global markets.

You've misinterpreted the ban on TikTok the app to be available in India to ByteDance being allowed to function as a company.

MagicalQuokka

Stealth11mo

That's what I thought - I knew a person working at Bytedance so this post left me very confused.

SwirlyTaco

Stealth11mo

I'd never take a comment from someone named sugarbaby seriously, that too one with every claim caveated by "it is rumoured".

DerpyBurrito

Gojek11mo

Also indian govt has stopped the operation of tiktok which still holds true after tiktok acquisition of tokopedia

MagicalQuokka

Stealth11mo

Oracle acquired Tiktok US but the govt. didn't stop Oracle operations in India. Similarly, Gojek operations in India won't stop because Bytedance acquired Gojek. Also, Gojek doesn't have any product or service offerings for India AFAIK so there are no India operations to stop.

The above Insta post is just illogical fear-mongerimg.