The rock-socketed piles are characterized by strong bearing capacity, small settlement and good seismic performance because of their embedded in the bedrock at a certain depth or all of them. They are the basic types of construction, bridges and ports. The rock-rock piles of soft rock are different from those of hard rock and rock-socketed piles because of the particularity of soft rock, and many of them have studied the bearing characteristics of soft rock-bearing rock from different angles. This article mainly describes the bearing performance of soft rock socketed piles from the current research status of pile side and pile end resistance.