Toxic toxic toxic! - Community Associate WeWork Employee Review

1.0
6 Sept 2023
Recommend
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Pros

There are absolutely no pros.

Cons

Utterly terrible. Management is incompetent and lacks leadership and communication skills, a clear failing of the extensive training they supposedly undergo to achieve this position. Inconsistent and contradictory teachings, lacking structure and knowledge. They will delegate pointless and time-wasting tasks with no clear direction or outcome just to abuse their power. They offer no training or support to new starters and consistently point out shortcomings having never actually shown you proper guidance in your role. Despite receiving great member feedback, they will never value or acknowledge your wins making you feel under-appreciated. Colleagues are petty, power-happy and have a holier-than-thou attitude. They will deliberately sabotage you to make themselves look better and are unnecessarily competitive. There is no culture of helping each other excel and no joy in seeing others succeed. There is an overwhelming sense of vindictive, passive-aggressive behaviour leading to micro-management despite having no authority to do so or official management training. HR is tragic too, hosting a very childish "he said/she said" mentality, no one looks at the clearly presented facts. They are illogical and immature, completely ignoring standard procedure. HR lacks compassion and shows a total disregard for your personal well-being and safety. This cultivates bullying and harassing behaviour with no consequences because HR is completely useless. There is no sense of community, trust or teamwork. It’s everyone for themselves. WeWork is full of narcissistic, delusional, hypocrites. None of the so-called "values" are implemented in any way. This culture is hypocritical and deceitful. You are fed lies during the interview stages and onboarding, none of the promises are honoured down the line. There is no work-life balance, once you sign the contract, it seems WeWork owns you and your time. You are just another cog in this trainwreck of a machine. This is a very clicky company and is not a place you can grow. There is a reason the staff turnover in this company is so high. If you value your mental health, don't bother working here.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
25 May 2018
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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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