For a company swiftly outgrowing itself, the worst place you can be is on the Community Management Team - Anonymous employee WeWork Employee Review

2.0
30 Dec 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Your lifestyle is fun- you drink often and a lot for free, you rub shoulders with important people, and you are able to continue the fratty lifestyle beyond college -Some of the people that work here are gems. Really interesting, smart, wonderful colleagues. -Looks good on you resume, especially with the recent press the company has gotten.

Cons

-If you are not willing to take WeWork on as your religion, your social life, your profession, your everyday philosophy, then stay away. 12 hour work days, weekends on call, constant changes in job description that are expected to be swallowed without comment. -The politics. Nepotism is rampant and shocking management-styles and behaviors are accepted because of it. I would go as far to call it "cultish". If you're in, you're in, and if you're out you will still work endlessly with little to no acknowledgement or benefit. -"Meetings" are actually a chance for the executive team to tout egos and perform. As an employee, you smile and clap, but don't dare speak up. -Money is the key. If you can make the company lots of money, to the point where you might feel like you are selling a product that doesn't deliver, you will do fine. If not, you will get low-ratings and no bonus, even if you are doing the job you thought you had signed up for.

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Cons

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3.0
25 May 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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