Not Worth the Pains - Anonymous employee WeWork Employee Review

2.0
31 Jul 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Your coworkers are all going to be great and the members you work with day to day are for the most part also really good people. Benefits are also pretty nice, lots of PTO and holidays, decent pay, good parental leave.

Cons

Middle management loves to abuse their power over you. No logic is ever applied to feedback and if you dare to try to have an actual conversation around the feedback they are giving you they will tell you off for it. I have never worked with such ineffective managers throughout my career and no one seems to care or do anything about it. Managers do not know the roles they claim to oversee and frequently during time off I have been found at fault for someone else's mistakes and bothered during said time off to fix it. They also love to play favorites. If others make a mistake and the managers like them it is not a big deal but if you do and you're not one of their favorites then it is going to be a major issue. And if something personal is going on it doesn't matter, the company comes first before your own life and your own problems no matter how big. There is also zero upward mobility unless you're willing to wait over 7 years for a position to magically open up and for the wind to blow in the right direction. They will tell you during the interview there is a lot of ability to have a real career here but that is categorically false. Everyone is only here until they can get to a better company and there is a revolving door of employees.

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5.0
16 Mar 2026
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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

Depending on location, the customer flow can be insanely heavy. Members tend to come multiple times a visit.

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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