JUST OK - Community Lead WeWork Employee Review

3.0
Jun 8, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Absolutely great people to work with-Great to build network with the members in the building you work in-Work/life balance is great, not expected to work after-hours -Gorgeous workspaces-Management used to have amazing employee perks like Summer Camp, Boat Parties, Summit but are pinching pennies so there's no perks or "team lunch" anymore--- not extremely important, but very little flexibility with spending

Cons

-Buildings are extremely short staffed, very overwhelming if you are in a building with a lot of members -Leadership pushes new projects out too fast without thinking of the processes leading a messy implementation -Hires externally, difficult to get promoted to higher roles -Must be OK with doing mail sorting since that's the primary job of the Community Associate. Over 50% of your day will be leaving your laptop with many tasks to give members the mail. -Stocks in the company are worth nothing -No HR action when members harass employees -Very rarely ban members, even though they steal, do not pay, harass other people, WeWork employees. Members always have the upper hand to do whatever they want if they have an office -Very minimal security, some cities do not have any security people and you need to reach out to someone in a market many miles away to take remote action. This is a huge issue for buildings that have entrances on busy streets, especially if something dangerous happens such as the location at Times Square

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
May 25, 2018
Recommend
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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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