Passive Aggressive Toxic Cliquish Environment- No Diversity!! - Anonymous employee WeWork Employee Review

2.0
May 2, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Everyone knows the offices are gorgeous and you do get the freedom to work anywhere in your building and in other wework locations in your manager approves that. There is also free breakfast everyday and free dinner every Monday so that is a big plus. Also depending on the team you are on you get to take to free trips with you colleagues for free. Also it is stress free to not have to be in at exactly 9am and to be able to dress casually.

Cons

Before I was hired I asked if there was a good amount of people of color who worked for the company and the HR rep gave me a round about answer. So now that I am here I see why. The majority of people of color specifically African-American or Hispanic work as part of the cleaning crew or low income jobs. I am myself am a person of color so I always feel extremely out of place and an outcast as soon as I walk in their headquarters. And even on my actual team there are a lot of cliques to the point where you can feel extremely alone even though you’re surrounded by hundreds and of people walking up and down the hallways. So if you’re not in the “in crowd” then you will be treated like an outcast. You feel like you are working alone even though you are a part of a team. I feel more comfortable saying hi and talking and socializing with the cleaning crew then I do with my own teammates. People cast you out to the point where they don’t even want you to sit with them or even socialize with them at all to the point where they go as far as to try to avoid being in your presence. The passive aggressive behavior has taken a toll on me mentally in a negative way so I am currently job searching.

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3.0
May 25, 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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