Not for the serious! - Community Manager WeWork Employee Review

1.0
Sep 27, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Free coffee/tea/biscuits/water - Salary was ok

Cons

Where do I start! - From the on boarding process that felt like you were joining a cult - mustering up enthusiasm and brainwashing the young into thinking this was THE best place to work. Failure to deliver on most of what was outlined as perks of the job. - Placed in teams/buildings not always suitable to personalities. - BIG EGOS in the teams. Jostling for credit and a pat on the back. Trying to get noticed. - Staff moved around buildings on a whim and without much notice. Can't quite understand how this is meant to build up team morale and trust if there is literally no consistency in staff. Also looks terrible to members when their community managers are consistently replaced. - Long hours! No lunch break routine so you feel bad for taking a full hour. - Compulsory after work events to attend. This was never outlined during on boarding. Events were just so weird and over the top. Very 'American'. - Not for the serious. Don't work here if you have had a serious career in the past and expect some level of professionalism. - Admin side of the job is so extensive that you can't actually focus on the members and building relationships. - Hiring of a very similar 'type' of person - if you are not up for a party, being silly, taking selfies in toilets, being best friends with everyone then do not join!

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Cons

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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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