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 Imobiliária industry (3.8 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
Jun 23, 2015
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

If you're young and you've never worked anywhere else, you might like it here. Most of the company is under 25, there's a lot of partying, and it feels like the company is winning.

Cons

If you care about working at a place that respects you, enables you to do your best work, and helps you grow professionally, it's a no brainer...look elsewhere! Management: Unfortunately, they look out for themselves, not for you. The majority of the execs are friends and family of one another. They're having a blast becoming paper million/billionaires together. It's all fun and games if you're one of them, but you're not. You never will be. You will make below market, work long hours, never be a shot caller, and be expected to be thankful for it. Culture of excellence: Sadly, it doesn't exist. Management is having too much fun reveling in how awesome everyone thinks their company is to want to really focus on building a great business. There's a lot of talk about this-and-that new initiative, but there's not much smart action taken to reach the lofty goals management promises members and investors. Nurturing talent: Management knows people are lining up around the block to work there. Ask too many questions or provide too much constructive criticism? They're more likely to show you the door than give you what you deserve. On the off chance you get promoted, you won't get a raise to go with it and you won't ever really be making decisions if you're not in the inner circle. HR: HR leadership can be very unprofessional. There is a frat boy culture of bullying, sexism, and harassment at the company that HR enables instead of trying to fix. HR leadership puts on a nice face, but is actually quite disingenuous and political. They exist to serve management, not employees. It's sad when you can't even trust HR; who else are you suppose to turn to? Bottom line: At all times, management is looking out for themselves, not you. If you don't think about it too much, and pour yourself another pint from the keg of free beer in the kitchen, you might forget about it for a second and think how lucky you are to have a seat on this rocket ship. They're hoping you will. That's why the keg is there.

2.0
Jun 10, 2015

Not Worth the Stress

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Great people in low-level (community management) roles. Free beer. Parties.

Cons

Everything else. Terrible work/life balance, delusional upper management, no pay for overtime despite regularly working 12+ hour days. They don't even tell you that the standard workday is 9-6 until your first day of work. CEO is a narcissist, too.

5.0
Jun 6, 2015

City Lead

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

If you feel passionate about the company values and mission, you will love working for WeWork. You will undoubtedly be highly challenged and feel deeply connected to what you do every day.

Cons

Don't join WeWork if you aren't ready to dive right in and work hard. Really hard. There is no end to the impact you can have on your community, which means there is also no end to the work you can put in to enhancing the member experience. Endless work = tricky work/life balance, but the job (if I can even call it that) is so directly rewarding that if it's the right fit, (=alignment with mission and values), it's not a struggle you often consider (and I say this as a mother of two.)

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