Should be a dream job, but management makes it a nightmare - Anonymous employee WeWork Employee Review

1.0
Jun 23, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you're young and you've never worked anywhere else, you might like it here. Most of the company is under 25, there's a lot of partying, and it feels like the company is winning.

Cons

If you care about working at a place that respects you, enables you to do your best work, and helps you grow professionally, it's a no brainer...look elsewhere! Management: Unfortunately, they look out for themselves, not for you. The majority of the execs are friends and family of one another. They're having a blast becoming paper million/billionaires together. It's all fun and games if you're one of them, but you're not. You never will be. You will make below market, work long hours, never be a shot caller, and be expected to be thankful for it. Culture of excellence: Sadly, it doesn't exist. Management is having too much fun reveling in how awesome everyone thinks their company is to want to really focus on building a great business. There's a lot of talk about this-and-that new initiative, but there's not much smart action taken to reach the lofty goals management promises members and investors. Nurturing talent: Management knows people are lining up around the block to work there. Ask too many questions or provide too much constructive criticism? They're more likely to show you the door than give you what you deserve. On the off chance you get promoted, you won't get a raise to go with it and you won't ever really be making decisions if you're not in the inner circle. HR: HR leadership can be very unprofessional. There is a frat boy culture of bullying, sexism, and harassment at the company that HR enables instead of trying to fix. HR leadership puts on a nice face, but is actually quite disingenuous and political. They exist to serve management, not employees. It's sad when you can't even trust HR; who else are you suppose to turn to? Bottom line: At all times, management is looking out for themselves, not you. If you don't think about it too much, and pour yourself another pint from the keg of free beer in the kitchen, you might forget about it for a second and think how lucky you are to have a seat on this rocket ship. They're hoping you will. That's why the keg is there.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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