WeWork Reviews

Pros

- WeWork allows you to grow as long as you keep producing good work.
- Smart people all around you that you can learn from.
- Great Perks
- Awesome Co-Workers

Advice to Management

Keep it going!

Pros

Great starting pay for employees

Pros

fun events, great team members, amazing networking opportunities, traveling opportunities

Advice to Management

need to respect work/life balance a bit more

Pros

Beautiful office and cool amenities

Pros

Nothing consequential, free meals mean you have to stay late... on a Monday no less!

Advice to Management

Grow the f*** up - you can be an innovator without being immature.

Pros

Nice team members
Health benefits were decent
Great office location

Advice to Management

I use to work on the broker and referrals team. I never had a more traumatic experience than working on the team. I was publicly humiliated in the office, treated less than human, and broke down and cried several time while working for the broker referrals team. I spoke to HR and they never helped me. I tried moving to another team and when my boss found out, I was told that I can't leave the team because she said so.

Pros

Lot of energy and cool offices. Lot of free swag. Summer camp.

Advice to Management

Get some real leadership and please upgrade your talent in Digital engineering & products (directors and above). Frustrating to everyone else. Value team players more vs arrogant kids blowing their own trumpet. Live your own values and culture you are trying to sell. Hopefully new CTO will be able to bring good leadership.

Pros

Beer on tap, some cheap snacks and not much else.

Advice to Management

Pay your employees fairly. Provide some form of structure and guidance so employees can grow as people. Hire more compassionate people who have the ability to lead effectively. Get it together .

Pros

Lots of smart people on your team who you can learn from. Exposure and networking opportunities to a lot of different people and companies

Pros

All the flashy post-grad amenities a Millennial can dream of - free beer on tap, access to all WeWork buildings around the city at any time of day/night, consistent MANDATORY party-centric meetings/events, and being able to get the expected "wow!" reaction from sharing your WeWork employee status.

Advice to Management

Advice to Potential Employees - please be advised that this is NOT your typical Admin role. Signed onboard initially as an FDA, expecting your regular front desk/reception experience, to quickly find throughout the training process that Sales is a VERY heavy aspect of the role as well. Having come from a no Sales background and/or interest in selling amenities/space to prospective members - this was a huge turn off right off the bat, as there was absolutely no mention of such during the interview process and would have resulted in me continuing my job search elsewhere.

Though hiring is constant across the board - all buildings' Community Teams are extremely short staffed at all times (for reasons still "unknown", tho salary avoidance can pretty quickly be recognized) - resulting in a consistent headless-chicken run around for all employees throughout their days. While work is hard, play is even harder - which may have been much more appealing in my earlier years, but as a 30-something with a family to go home to at night - the last minute schedule changes to your day resulting in 45-50 hour work weeks/more than one ~12 hour shift regularly is a bit too much to take on unexpectedly.

Advice to management would be - please be upfront with all role aspects from the very beginning to save on wasted time, please streamline the hiring/training process and organize it a bit more to ensure that both onboarding newbies AND training staff knows where their guys have to go and hire the appropriate number of people per building - larger buildings with the necessary INCREASED number of hands on board to keep everything running smoothly, NOT with the same six person team one of your smallest buildings typically has.

I'm sure the WeWork brand will continue to boom as it has been, but with a couple of tweaks, a bit more honesty and the right number on hands onboard - the heightened turn over rate would likely be a bit lower and the appropriate types of people cut out for this type of work would be hired.