WeCorrupt - Senior Manager WeWork Employee Review

1.0
14 Nov 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If you enjoy being mentally and emotionally abused, then this is the job for you! Pre-failed IPO days, the company offered a lot of great social benefits and competitive salaries.

Cons

Too many. WeWork is functionally disorganized. No one has any idea what is going on, none of the teams are in sync and some times end up doing the same exact work which will go unnoticed. Most of our days are about meetings instead of doing actual work, you will have meetings about the same topics for weeks and nothing moves. Most of the management is either incompetent and inexperienced, they compensate for their lack of skill and ability by having more meetings and by micromanaging their employees. Projects and timelines are constantly changing, no one seems to know what is actually going on. With the company changes, people are sitting around literally doing nothing and are assigned projects that will never materialize just to look busy. If you go to HR or management for any of these internal issues, prepare to be gaslighted. WeWork takes zero responsibility for any wrongdoing on their part. HR is completely biased and will do anything to protect the company and to avoid public lawsuits. Believe everything you read in the news about this, it's true. If you're looking for a work/life balance, you can forget it. WeWork expects you to work around the clock. No one respects each other's timezones/ deadlines, it makes for a non-cohesive working environment and creates distrust around teams. While this is an international company, no one takes anyone's working times into consideration when completing work and will send something way past due. Let's talk about respect. What WeWork is currently doing to its employees mentally and emotionally is absolutely unacceptable. For almost 2 months the company has been "transparently" letting employees know there will be layoffs but hasn't made any major ones as of yet. People are constantly sitting in fear that their job might not exist, they are miserable, they don't want to be there and are just sticking around to get their hopefully big severance check. They know employees are spending their days searching for new jobs, calling in "sick", taking vacation days all to look for new jobs but are turning the other way in hopes that people will quit instead.

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5.0
16 Mar 2026
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CEO approval
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Pros

Weekends off Solid structure that you couldn’t find in a normal cafe Base rate that would be equivalent to working a busy cafe with tips

Cons

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3.0
25 May 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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