Would not recommend - Software Engineer WeWork Employee Review

3.0
Jan 6, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Really fun and awesome peers to work with. Talented, exciting bunch. Good health insurance. This is a pro and a con I supposed but: It's pretty wild wild west so if you really want to create something new and can be a convincing type of person you can do things you would normally never be able to do at a company of this size. There is usually too much bureaucratic red tape to do things like this but its a positive side of their lack of organization. I've seen some good things come of this.

Cons

Higher up is very unorganized and treat the managers badly. I've heard that some of the managers were yelled at publicly at meetings. This creates an extremely stressful environment for the managers and it trickles down to the employees under those managers. Just.. not much support for the managers at all unfortunately. Almost impossible to get a raise. Very fratty party culture, they essentially make it mandatory to attend weekend long or night long raves where a lot of people are on drugs. I don't necessarily have anything against coworkers partying together but I am against making that mandatory. What if someone is in recovery? Or what about people who have families and kids? Not very inclusive in that regard. I don't know the new CEOs so I'm not going to rate them. Adam was annoying and very out of touch. His wife Rebecca... my god. She literally said at one point that they shouldn't hire anyone who doesn't have a good relationship with their mother. Like people can choose who their mother is. This also really undermines people who have pulled themselves out of poverty and likely have complicated familial relationships. It's so ridiculous. I'm amazed they lasted in those high positions in modern day culture as long as they did! I'm sure it is starting to change now.. or I hope so at least.

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5.0
Dec 11, 2025
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Pros

Still one of the best companies I have worked for in terms of staff relationships, perks, and challenge

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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