Worked there for about a year, poor working conditions and messed up corporate culture. - Anonymous employee WeWork Employee Review

1.0
30 May 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The company pays for unlimited, coffee, tea and alcohol. They throw amazing parties and will often pass out free intoxicants to employees. You will meet incredible people at WeWork and make friends which last a lifetime. Benefits are OK, healthcare mostly taken care of. Includes vision but no dental. 10 sick days, 10 vacation days. Only some employees get equity.

Cons

Terrible culture, management creates a culture of overwork in employees. People regularly stay until 9 or 10 at night. Unreasonable pressure on employees to drink and participate in company events. Employees who don't participate in company events (like their giant keggers) are publicly shamed at team meetings. A culture of detached sexism and nepotism. Management promotes abusive work environment with yelling, insults and blaming of others.

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Real community feeling and a lot of team members that really care about each other.

Cons

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3.0
25 May 2018
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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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