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I am even more baffled that 1500 engineers accepted an offer at a company that's clearly a fraud. And it would have taken one Google search about their prospective employer to have seen this.

If you work at or did work at We, what was your reasoning? Did you have any?

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I don’t think it was as obvious as it is now. Plus a lot of engineers work at companies which are blatant VC plays with little chance of viability, outside of acquisition. Those companies just don’t burn as hot or as fast as WeWork.

Even so, surely the revenue numbers were shared internally at some point. After which, anyone who could would have run for the hills.

Unless you're stuck in a job where you're below market in exchange for equity, as long as the checks keep clearing, you're not really incentivized to run for the hills. Keep your resume fresh, sure. Though we can make presumptions about what having WW on your resume will do reputation-wise, it sounds like it was a good opportunity to also fill it with a ton of buzz words.

I guess. But I bet the work environment was terrible. Why waste time? Life is too short, pull the trigger and leave. If you can.

I'm sure they worked for a paycheck, providing the critical infrastructure needed to property manage that many office spaces and customers.

WeWork has tens of thousands of customers who for the most part are able to seamlessly come and go, check out conference rooms, pay for various one-offs, and their membership fees.

Did they need 1500 engineers to build all of that, no. But when you take venture capital in the expectation of growth, you have to grow.

Nope, there's not enough work to go around for that many rats.

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