Practice what you preach - Associate Community Manager WeWork Employee Review

2.0
2 Dec 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There is a playful working environment and WeWork members are very nice overall and one can learn a lot about different kind of businesses and the strategies behind them.

Cons

There is a lack of real management, and there is a non-stop understaff problem. Therefore most of the systems don't properly work and due to the worldwide time differences they make you work around the clock, without any (financial) incentive/compensation. They fire people on the spot at 8pm while they were still working!!! As if they have stolen stuff or something, most definitely they did not receive a 'warning'. If only they would threat the employees the same way as they hug their concept and their members it would be a relative nice place to work. However, they don't and not a week went by or someone burst into crying because of the pressure, stress, and lack of support. Moreover, they don't care about the safety of their employees. There is a high level management guy of which it is known that he harasses young ladies, he tried it with me but a co-worker warned me for him and helped me to 'politely' leave his sphere of influence. Apparently he does this on numerous occasions, but WeWork decides to let hard working people go instead of a high level management guy who is harmful for the safety of its employees. So, unless you want to be in a non-stop bubble with some serious effects to your health I would think again, or at least read Dave Eggers with his book The Circle to get an idea of what it is like.

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5.0
16 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Weekends off Solid structure that you couldn’t find in a normal cafe Base rate that would be equivalent to working a busy cafe with tips

Cons

Depending on location, the customer flow can be insanely heavy. Members tend to come multiple times a visit.

3.0
25 May 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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