Moving Further and Further from their Core Values - Anonymous employee WeWork Employee Review

2.0
Oct 2, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fantastic colleagues who are great listeners, who want to learn, who want to hone their craft. This is a good place to start our and get a better understanding of what you want from your career. Gain exposure to a range of disciplines and industries under one roof. Good health / dental / vision benefits. Flexible sick days. WeWork locations all over the world. You DO feel like you're part of a global effort to create a community. Members are grateful and appreciate the hard work.

Cons

No transparency throughout the entire WeWork organization. There is no protocol to receive or request performance reviews, promotions, or be considered for a raise. There is no such thing as advancement or vertical movement in a company that does not give employees a feeling of security (beyond a paper card to fill out their short and long term goals). They will switch your immediate manager, team and title with no notice. It is a typical occurrence to have your day-to-day workflow suddenly upended by high-level layoffs and resignations. There are very few women at the executive level, except in assistant / coordinator (aka administration) positions. Male managers favor their friends and family. They treat them as such. I'm not surprised to see this come up in several other reviews. HR will not answer your emails for weeks, and when they do, they are dismissive and short. You are asked to work weekends, and travel on short notice. This is many of your colleagues first job and their lack of experience falls on 'few' rather than 'all', often leading to an inconsistent or sub-par final product.

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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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