Vantaggi
WeWork is awesome. This could be a cool place to work for someone right out of college who wants to get their hands dirty and be given a lot of responsibility. Lax morning arrival time.
Svantaggi
My first paycheck came 19 days late. Polite questions about when I would get paid were met with an impatient attitude and excuses, one of which was, and I am not making this up, “our accountant is on vacation.” No one ever apologized or claimed accountability, but rather just passed the buck when it was pretty clear who had made the mistake. The company wouldn’t give me a WeWork key (costs them money) and instead kept me as a free “guest visitor,” so I would get locked out of the office every time I went to get water or coffee or left the building. This became awkward with the WeWork staff as it was pretty obvious PTTOW was abusing their guest policy. I was also asked to try to avoid using PTTOW’s daily parking passes by scooting past the parking attendant without paying. Too much perma-freelancing going on here. Contractors (designers, video editors) work full time for months or even years paying employer tax on PTTOW’s behalf, and of course do not receive benefits. They don’t have a server. Even after 9 years in business. Files are unorganized and scattered between a maxed out dropbox, G suite, and four hard drives that float around the office. Contractors are poorly managed—I was often sitting on the clock with nothing to do (even though I brought this to the attention of leadership) or wasting time trying to track down a file in the aforementioned file mess, only to be asked to stay late at the end of the day without being paid overtime. The company is essentially an institution for social climbing with nebulous goals of “changing the world.” This may not be a con for everyone, but I thought it was weird and disingenuous.