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 30, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Really nice office environment, and great young and energetic coworkers. Good healthcare benefits and plenty of small perks like food, alcohol, parties.

Cons

General disappointment with the executive team's lack of responsibility and desire on making this a truly exceptional company with great values and sustained long-term growth. Publicly, the company wraps itself in a veil of "community-building" and entrepreneurship encouragement. But behind the scenes, lies an unqualified executive team composed almost entirely of friends and businesses partners of the CEO; which jointly, are looking for one thing and one thing alone: grow as fast as possible without considering the consequences, in order to get as much hype and the most amount of financial investors in the shortest time, so they can go public. And then... it will be somebody else's problem. At this moment, the main chunk of the labor force is working as hard as possible and sacrificing themselves to maintain the company's image and sustain it's uncontrolled growth. But eventually, they will collapse under the weight of the executive team's failures and bad decisions. This could have been one of those rare companies that come from time to time and bring a generational change. But the way it's being managed currently, it will just end up being another short-sighted money grabbing scheme.

5.0
Jun 29, 2014

We have an amazing mission to help people create

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

We have an amazing mission to help people create. It's clear that my colleagues believe in our mission and are passionate about helping to fulfill it. One of the biggest pros, aside from having an awesome mission, is that people develop meaningful friendships at WeWork. It is terrific to have colleagues that you can call friends. We get to know each other by doing real work and at our annual ski trip and summer camp. I also enjoy working across a diverse range of departments (designers, engineers, community leaders, lawyers, finance teams, real estate experts, sales leaders...) and with employees from a lot of different countries/cultural backgrounds (Brazil, Italy, USA, Israel, Mexico, Canada, UK...). Finally, my colleagues are also smart, entrepreneurial and quick to adapt to our ever-evolving business.

Cons

We have a lean team at this time, as we continue to re-invest profits back into new buildings, so we can expand our offerings to businesses. This does mean that we have to stretch ourselves, we are not as well staffed as a more established organization. As a result, this is not a place to come if you do not love multitasking, less structured tasks and working hard. There are also times that we are moving so fast that expectations of employees are less clear than they should be. We also need to work on our internal communication so that we all understand the what, how and why behind business decisions.

5.0
Jun 23, 2014
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

get to work with with architects, engineers, designers, real estate people...a lot of very different and interesting people. a strong fun vibe too

Cons

it's a start-up..not a lot of structure, but at the same time, a lot of freedom to do big things

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