WeWork Reviews

Pros

Great mission.
Inspiring leadership.
Socially conscious organization.
Lots of incredible challenges to solve.
You're working on a product that you use, and talk to customers every single day.
Collaborative culture.

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.

Advice to Management

Honestly, whatever you can do to create more authenticity in people, in the feel of the company, do it. Create meaning and purpose for everyone--help them see how what they do actually matters. And maybe actually institute meaningful performance management measures.

Pros

- Thriving (and growing) Community Team
- Opportunities to grow and challenge yourself
- Incredible leadership that is committed to you personally and professionally
- People first culture
- Fantastic company for people who thrive on creating opportunities for others and solving the growth related challenges

Advice to Management

Continue to invest in evolving the benefits packages (401k matching, floating holidays, parking benefits for traveling roles, and total pay).

Pros

For those looking to join a fast-paced, collaborative and unique company look no further.

In the startup/venture-backed world of companies, most times companies have a great idea might have bad management and can have a limited supply of capital. In other circumstances, companies have a bad idea, mediocre management and somehow end up raising a good amount of capital, that usually is mismanaged and doesn't last.

At WeWork you have a once in a lifetime opportunity: an incredible idea, with incredible management and a very strong capitalization that allows you to be the best always. Not to forget, a total addressable market that's in the trillions of dollars which make the magnitude of the opportunity larger than anything currently in the market.

So what does this mean? If you're looking to grow your career, be part of something big, contribute to a hugely innovative concept and surround yourself with like-minded individuals that love what they do, then you've arrived at WeWork.

No other startup/venture funded company in the world right now can offer all of the abovementioned variables and prove it's equity is going to be worth a lot for you soon. Any place else, it's just money on paper.

Bottom line; think wisely when you pick your next company...I did and it was easy to pick WeWork!

Advice to Management

Continue to leverage your advisor, do what you're doing while maintaining the transparency that makes WeWork an incredible place to work at.

Pros

WeWork is a mission led company that helps every employee make an impact on their team, the company and their city in a way I’ve never seen before.

I’ve been able to have an impact and grow here more than I ever imagined.

The benefits continue to get better, the compensation is in line with market, the culture is absolutely amazing and the people are second to none. We move fast and try new things constantly. You could literally have 3 careers at WeWork there is so much opportunity.

Advice to Management

Continue to push on elevating the employee experience, recognition, and how to figure out the right mix of work and life.

Pros

- Free food and beverages
- Trendy (but overcrowded) office with a barista
- Access to all WeWork locations (clean bathroom all over NYC)
- Wellness initiatives like yoga and massages
- Good pay & benefits

Advice to Management

Hold people accountable for their actions. If a manager cannot led, don't let them be a manager. It's that simple.

Pros

WeWork is heavily investing in technology, both from a product perspective and as an organization. This means that there are significant opportunities to impact the technology landscape in ways that will affect the next 5-10 years of company success.

The way the company is going about this massive technology organization growth is aggressive, but healthy from my perspective. Leadership has past experience guiding their principals, but they are trusting the entire organization to deliver and grow in excellence and success.

Advice to Management

Continue to double down on investing in technological excellence. Ideally metrics related to good engineering practices and adoption of new technologies can somehow be added into the product goals and OKRs to assist in rationalizing the product "cost" necessary, particularly for existing technology products.

Pros

There is no shortage of challenging problems to work on and career opportunities to grow.

Very strong leadership at the top of the technology organization. Senior leadership comes from top companies like Spotify, Amazon, Twitter, and Google.

Many engineering projects are very greenfield so we get to use cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes, Istio, Go, Kotlin, etc.

Advice to Management

Continue to improve and hire top talent at the top in all areas of the company. It is a slow process but the overall talent is improving.

Pros

Growing company, opportunities to network, events, most of your peers are outstanding and talented individuals. Fast-paced (if that works for you).

Advice to Management

None they would take to heart at this point, internally they think they're flawless. The ship is too big to turn around now.

Pros

If you like a mission Driven company that allows you to be autonomous, entrepreneurial, and inspired then this is the perfect place to be. WeWork has allowed me and our team to develop processes to help grow our local members and community. The transparency of the team and the integration of our corporate team is close to none. It is extremely easy to contact figure heads to get answers and solutions, and when are is not one you are empowered to be apart of creating solutions. Our company is very diverse. Being an African american man in a leadership position is empowering, as well as honored as WeWork values different backgrounds and experiences. My 2 years at WeWork has truly been great and has empowered me to work to create things greater than myself. Previously working for Apple and Nike afforded me the opportunity to be apart of companies that have a great brand. But WeWork is much more than that. I have referred tons of colleagues who joined WeWork and have loved it as well. If you are looking to grow, and help growth then WeWork is a great place to be.

Advice to Management

Continue to empower the team to develop, grow, and create solutions. We will continue to get the best solutions from our team!