Avoid This Company - Anonymous employee WeWork Employee Review

1.0
Feb 28, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Their marketing parties are well done, and many of the members are awesome. Most wework colleagues are also very nice people.

Cons

Wework is a volatile place to work at, and sacking are an easy and regular event in the company. The CEO is extremely vain and naraccistic, driving a ruthless business model. The business speaks of love and the sharing economy, but it's only for winning hearts and minds - it's a swindle! Fundamentally the business is,about making money at all costs, it's very stingy and lean operationally. You as an employee are a disposable tool for the business, a consumable. The leadership is generally very young and lacking experience in both business and life. Senior management are also typically very young, and work like a small elite club of privileged employees. At the time of employment they will say how dynamic,.and fantastic the company is, that it has amazing growth, and it's an incredible opportunity to work there. What they don't tell you is the crazy hours, your expected to work all night, that the company is in management and process chaos, that the business is super stingy, and you will constantly be on edge in regards to getting fired. Also expect to fly long haul in economy class, and share a hotel room with someone else even in senior management.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
May 25, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

VERY cool HQ--beer, fruit water, and other treats on tap, free breakfast, amazing decor, lots of events and cool trendy vendors who bring free stuff--if you like to humblebrag via Insta, you'll love this place. Some cool people --celebrities come in and out, your colleagues are generally very attractive folks, there's a sense of excitement and true commitment to the work (borderline evangelism) depending on who you work with and what you do. Name recognition and valuation -- company is a rising star and it's worth having on your resume. A cool mission on the surface--bringing community together, helping people do what they love (making work a passion rather than a chore) through connection.

Cons

This place is like drinking from one continuous Kool-Aid jug. VERY cult-y and cliquey. You are either in or you're out, and if you're out, rather than cut you loose right away, they gaslight you. It's actually kind of shocking how many people I've seen be treated so poorly here, and perhaps no coincidence that they were folks of color. Kind of hard to find the down to earth people I did find. I enjoyed the Community teams and Security/Ops/Real Estate people I met, probably because they were constantly "hustling," but the HR team (the PEOPLE team, for goodness sake) and a lot of other "prominent" faces were consistently rude, with an overinflated sense of self and zero idea of how the WeWork "values" translate into behaviors/contributions from a prospective employee POV. You have to have been there since the start, or be prepared to ingratiate yourself, to get any traction in your professional development or career path. I was always shocked how badly my manager wanted to be liked, and how much they were willing to do to be liked, to get any kind of clout and/or promotion just bc they hadn't started out at WeWork as a community team member. Never mind that they were super qualified for their job. Pay varies depending on who you are; some people earn market value...some people very very much don't, and there doesn't seem to be any consistency that determines which is which. TGIM. Thank God it's Monday. Mandatory Monday meetings. Sometimes they circulate tequila shots. Is that a plus? Not sure. Summer Camp. Adult Summer Camp. With EDM, people in salmon colored shorts, and lots of loud rowdy entitled folks. If that's anything but a con for you, you probably belong here and godspeed.

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