WeWork reviews

3.7

64% would recommend to a friend

(3,480 total reviews)
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John Santora

68% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

WeWork has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 3,480 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The WeWork employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Real Estate industry (3.8 stars).

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1.0
Jun 8, 2016

DO NOT JOIN COMMUNITY

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Pros

Great parties/events. Summer Camp was one of the best weekends of my life. People are fun to work with. If you willing to work 10-12 hour days, you can run your own building fairly quickly. High work ethic = fast career growth. There are constantly new positions being created. Buildings are beautifully designed and the amenities of each building are fun/relaxing.

Cons

No respect for employees time. There are 2-3 hour meetings every Monday after 6pm not to include the amount of internal/external events you have to attend every week after the normal 9-6 hours. No desire to train/improve employees. You're hired "at will" so if they find someone that can do your job better, they'll fire you after interviewing the new candidate. They can and will fire you without any warning. HR rarely responds to any feedback. Managers don't respond to feedback either. Managers aren't trained to lead, but simply promoted because they were able to do the previous job well. No personal development AT ALL. Everything is self-learned. WeWork thinks that they can feed their employees alcohol daily and dangle a massive IPO in front of their employees and can get away with actually caring about them. Everyone is replaceable (even execs) and it's seriously a dog-eat-dog company. Community staff work under the worst conditions. High expectations of selling with little-to-no reward. Constant negative feedback on how things could be done better. Community team rarely celebrate any successes along the way, just a new goal at the end of the year that makes everyone think their stocks are going up.

1.0
Jan 26, 2016

WeWork is a big disorganized M-E-S-S

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Pros

There are a lot of decent talent working very, very hard. Free beer and mandatory team dinners. The company itself is doing OK and there is a lot of WeWork "hype".

Cons

HR department is a joke, managers are too overwhelmed themselves to care and it seems everyone in a leadership role is in their function for the first time. The HR department is a joke- incompetent, rude and too busy to do their jobs well. The CHRO is phony and pretty useless in keeping a growing company working at all. The turnover is simply ridiculous and the culture is toxic. Everyone is overworked and underpaid and in over their heads. There is no training for anyone and too many "leaders" running around in meetings to actually make a difference. They have meetings until 2am in the AM and are too tired to actually lead their teams effectively.

1.0
May 6, 2015
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Pros

I can honestly say the only good thing is the people I worked with.

Cons

How can I start! LONG LONG hours (Kind of mandatory), 0 recognition from management, the culture is work hard and get drunk and then go back to work harder.

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