Amazing Mission and Beautiful Design - Anonymous employee WeWork Employee Review

3.0
Jul 2, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The Mission is our biggest Pro. The mission within our organization is to build great spaces that will help our members in their day to day operations while they strive to accomplish their dreams. We provide incredible working environments that are both professional and fun. Our community managers are encouraged to help our members grow their businesses through introductions and collaborations with other companies within the community locally and Nationwide. Our member base continues to grow with more and more industries from Tech start ups to dog walkers, Fashion designers to Tax Attorneys and Life Coaches - Great people with incredible ideas! With 10, 000 plus professionals like these working in our buildings each day, any business can thrive in this environment, especially if they take full advantage of the membership as it's been designed for them. Events are planned thoughtfully with start ups in mind. The digital platform we have in place is an amazing way to meet others in your industry or in another that may be able to help you build a client base, or a website. Even if a team is working hard on a project and has no time for these platforms for success, professional and Business connections happen here organically in hallways, kitchens, or even in the elevator on your way to lunch. Our mission thus far has been successful. Seeing these successes first hand each and every day in every building is what makes this company great.

Cons

As our team continues to grow it is difficult to see where you fit in the big picture. Long term employees are left feeling as though they've hit the ceiling in salary and growth with the company, their talents and ambitions overlooked while a new hire in set in place to freshly learn company culture and operations through the older employees. An open mind and a public board of positions we are seeking would be give the community a chance to grow as we do, especially in new markets. Investing in our employees through growth leadership seminars and the like would benefit the company and make our employees feel valued.

Explore other reviews about WeWork

5.0
Mar 16, 2026
Recommend
Business Outlook

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
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.

617
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All