We Work... Literally, all the time, with no recognition - Community Lead WeWork Employee Review

1.0
Jan 21, 2018
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Just like any other workplace, some people who work here are cool.

Cons

How do I even begin to describe what a degrading experience this has been? Long work weeks, mandatory parties and weekend/nighttime meetings, everyone is 22-26 years old and has had no prior managerial experience in their short life out of college. The young age should really be a factor in considering whether or not to work here. If you even remotely want to see friends, your partner, or god forbid you're married or have children - save yourself! Nobody here is in a functional relationship, anyone over the age of 35 is divorced or currently going through the process of it, and there is no true recognition or upward mobility for those in the community team. The amount of pressure put on young adults to "hustle harder" (yes they have stickers that say this) and not ask for anything in return is unbearable at best and a manipulative power play at worst. They want you to be quiet and be thankful for the opportunity to work for them, while most people live in fear every day of being fired for a random reason. Maybe all the clique-y 24 year old managers who still live with their parents don't correctly give feedback or constructive criticism to the team? At Summer Camp 2017, one of the CEOs, demanded that we pay more attention to his speech. Not being cognizant (or caring?) of the fact all of us flew from countries around the world that previous night, and then took a 3.5 hour bus from the airport, to immediately be herded into an area and sit down to a 4 hour long presentation without being given food or water first. People were obviously tired / sleepy / hungry, and this apparently yielded disbelief. He reminded us of how expensive this was for them and that we should sit upright and ought to show some respect. Work somewhere else where you can work a normal schedule and don't have people pressuring you to drink & go out with them or reprimanding anyone who asks about people who were ghost-fired. The culture here is unbelievably toxic.

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5.0
Mar 16, 2026
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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
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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