A creative hard-working group misguided by an unqualified and indifferent executive team that's only there for the ride. - Anonymous employee WeWork Employee Review

1.0
Jun 30, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Really nice office environment, and great young and energetic coworkers. Good healthcare benefits and plenty of small perks like food, alcohol, parties.

Cons

General disappointment with the executive team's lack of responsibility and desire on making this a truly exceptional company with great values and sustained long-term growth. Publicly, the company wraps itself in a veil of "community-building" and entrepreneurship encouragement. But behind the scenes, lies an unqualified executive team composed almost entirely of friends and businesses partners of the CEO; which jointly, are looking for one thing and one thing alone: grow as fast as possible without considering the consequences, in order to get as much hype and the most amount of financial investors in the shortest time, so they can go public. And then... it will be somebody else's problem. At this moment, the main chunk of the labor force is working as hard as possible and sacrificing themselves to maintain the company's image and sustain it's uncontrolled growth. But eventually, they will collapse under the weight of the executive team's failures and bad decisions. This could have been one of those rare companies that come from time to time and bring a generational change. But the way it's being managed currently, it will just end up being another short-sighted money grabbing scheme.

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5.0
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Pros

Weekends off Solid structure that you couldn’t find in a normal cafe Base rate that would be equivalent to working a busy cafe with tips

Cons

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3.0
May 25, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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