WeWork Reviews

Pros

- You are empowered to make decisions and choose your own goals/tasks
- Every day you meet so many amazing entrepreneurs as well as continuously build these relationships
- Inspiring and fun meetings, all-hands & trips (Summer Camp & Summit)
- Great support system! Everyone truly cares for your well-being and become family

Advice to Management

We need to reformat the CA role and provide higher pay, especially if the building is understaffed and the CA is performing like a CL. Each building should have 1 CM, 3 CLs (per each track), and 1 CA

Pros

Great pay, stock options for all employees, and generous health insurance. Although it looks like a pretentious Silicon Valley startup on the outside most of the people are nice and down to earth. There are nice perks like a cool work space and free food (sometimes), coffee (often have barista at HQ), and free alcohol (although don't take a job based on free food/drinks). Opportunities to travel (yearly summit and "summer camp"). WeWork spends lavishly on corporate events and genuinely tries to retain the startup attitude despite being a massive corporation. Management seems genuinely nice and approachable. Their mission to make work spaces more human and communal is admirable. A lot of startups just make stuff that floats around on the internet and has questionable value, WeWork builds things in the real world.

Advice to Management

Make TGIM less of a hassle, reduce the number of pet projects distracting from the core business, treat non-HQ staff better, offer retirement, offer staff a bit more stability, and standardize more HR procedures.

Pros

They pay well. Reasonable stock options. Very relaxed work environment. Very nice co-workers. Shame about (some of) the management. Pro-turned-con: They have a lot of talented tech employees, unfortunately, they don’t put them to good use.

Advice to Management

Focus on empowering your team to do great work, not playing politics. Work with and respect the talented team of designers and developers you have, not pushing your own agendas and ideologies. And stop being so fake and condescending, please.

Pros

Lots of great people, benefits, fun workspaces and parties

Advice to Management

Grow up, get your ego's straightened out.

Pros

Lots of friendly people, free coffee bar, lots of fun activities always happening in the office, exciting company-wide events like concerts, great larger mission

Advice to Management

Help new employees navigate their careers at the company

Pros

Multiple nice locations, good salary, good working athmosphere

Advice to Management

Employees are not stupid.

Pros

Good salary. Events. Cool HQ. Access to all buildings.

Advice to Management

I understand the company is new and things are in flux, but every time I raise a question more often there isn’t an answer. And when there is, quite the opposite happens. (Like the a team I worked with got laid off after we worked together on a huge campaign strategy?) also know who your talent is and stick up for them even when there’s “restructuring”... we lost some rockstars without notice.

Pros

Wonderful people to work with, good communication between departments, good benefits, access to all WeWorks around the world, ability to attend events at each location, great possibility in moving up and around in the company since they're growing so fast.

Advice to Management

Any chance desk hours could be 9-5, or that TGIMs weren't every week? In most large locations, all employees run at 110%, and 45-50hr weeks are exhausting. Either cutting down an hour or adding an extra pair of hands would be awesome.

Pros

Good place to work and enjoy my duty

Advice to Management

N/A

Pros

Growth Potential -- Just scratching the surface on its mission (rethinking how people work/live) with a massive potential market size (global real estate); Incubating business lines like Enterprise, Powered by We, etc. starting to gain significant traction

Great Product -- Lots of demand for the underlying product / service. Unit economics are actually profitable.

Coworkers -- Some of the most down-to-earth, inspiring people will be by your side; Employees form genuine friendships in and out of the workplace; Awesome global events bring people from all of the world together twice a year.

High Upside -- Rockstar employees have the ability to work on interesting, high-impact projects and get promoted to leadership positions early in their career.

Forward Thinking / Agile -- The company isn't afraid to try new things. While that often results in some growing pains, it's refreshing to be at a company that is constantly trying to evolve rather than become stagnant.

Advice to Management

- Continue to invest in your employees.
- Strive to create a meritocracy of ideas.
- More transparency to employees.
- Drive more focus through the organization by eliminating some of the "moonshot" business distractions and/or cutting ties with ineffective employees.