WeWork reviews

3.7

64% would recommend to a friend

(3,482 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 3,482 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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1.0
Nov 28, 2018

Unhealthy work environment and ethics

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good pay, Fast growing company

Cons

I Had high hopes when I joined wework, My values aligned with their alleged 'portrayal' and was impressed by the work culture and ethic and boy I couldn't be more wrong. The company is growing so fast and Adam usually speaks about growing pains but he's so far up that we has no idea what happens at base level. Almost everyone is stressed out and most times not cordial with anyone. Its hardly a community when no one comes out to help you in times of need. Because Wework is in 'growth' mode it will accept each and every project without even thinking about its implications financially, socially or most important environmentally. Management continuously keep changing and most of the time they are not qualified and have no people skills. For a multi-disciplinary team there is so much tension and back stabbing its hardly constructive and almost everyone is just trying to play their own agenda. This has possibility been the most toxic work environment I have ever worked in. Everything is on Chat! you don't even sit with your team which creates further communication issues than there already is. In the little time I was there I did not have a single meaningful face to face conversation with anyone. The CEO himself once mentioned the two things wework needs to work on is communication and retention of talent and I think its miserably failing on both counts. He also mentioned that we all learn and grow together and make mistakes but fortunately for him he cannot get fired.

1.0
Jun 8, 2016

DO NOT JOIN COMMUNITY

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great parties/events. Summer Camp was one of the best weekends of my life. People are fun to work with. If you willing to work 10-12 hour days, you can run your own building fairly quickly. High work ethic = fast career growth. There are constantly new positions being created. Buildings are beautifully designed and the amenities of each building are fun/relaxing.

Cons

No respect for employees time. There are 2-3 hour meetings every Monday after 6pm not to include the amount of internal/external events you have to attend every week after the normal 9-6 hours. No desire to train/improve employees. You're hired "at will" so if they find someone that can do your job better, they'll fire you after interviewing the new candidate. They can and will fire you without any warning. HR rarely responds to any feedback. Managers don't respond to feedback either. Managers aren't trained to lead, but simply promoted because they were able to do the previous job well. No personal development AT ALL. Everything is self-learned. WeWork thinks that they can feed their employees alcohol daily and dangle a massive IPO in front of their employees and can get away with actually caring about them. Everyone is replaceable (even execs) and it's seriously a dog-eat-dog company. Community staff work under the worst conditions. High expectations of selling with little-to-no reward. Constant negative feedback on how things could be done better. Community team rarely celebrate any successes along the way, just a new goal at the end of the year that makes everyone think their stocks are going up.

1.0
Jan 26, 2016

WeWork is a big disorganized M-E-S-S

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are a lot of decent talent working very, very hard. Free beer and mandatory team dinners. The company itself is doing OK and there is a lot of WeWork "hype".

Cons

HR department is a joke, managers are too overwhelmed themselves to care and it seems everyone in a leadership role is in their function for the first time. The HR department is a joke- incompetent, rude and too busy to do their jobs well. The CHRO is phony and pretty useless in keeping a growing company working at all. The turnover is simply ridiculous and the culture is toxic. Everyone is overworked and underpaid and in over their heads. There is no training for anyone and too many "leaders" running around in meetings to actually make a difference. They have meetings until 2am in the AM and are too tired to actually lead their teams effectively.

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