Just to clarify: I have a full office in a WeWork, and I've worked in the same office (along with some of my colleagues) for over 4 years. So I (and the company I work for) might not be the "typical" WeWork customer story. As far as workplaces go, it's perfectly fine: the office itself is nicely designed and has reasonable (but not especially fancy) amenities.

I haven't really engaged in the community, although there seems to be a somewhat active one. I know other people who have, including going to parties and social events that were organized by WeWork (I have no idea if these are as common anymore, but they seemed to be happening a lot in 2018-19).

My experience with Wework in downtown SF has been pretty good!

Community? Ehhh not in my experience. As a social person, I'm pretty good friends with the employees there, security, and the neighbor office, but overall its just another office with a little more up to date styling. We like it a lot and it works for us, but its not worth anymore than a traditional rent an office.

Oh the dog friendly part kicks ass though! And many of us have use the essentially free (because they give you hella credits) hotdesk credits while working in remote locations. Was SUPER awesome in new york when we had 4 hours between checkout and flight. Snuck my gf into the nearest one for clean bathrooms, coffee, charging, ect.

We use WeWork On Demand for this. No recurring membership fees, just pay as you go. It's okay -- $30 to $50 / day to use the common rooms and amenities. Much better than ... a library / coffee shop / hotel room.

Their guest policy could be better though! You essentially cannot have guests with the On Demand membership -- just go to a coffee shop for that.

Never heard of it, I'll check it out.

I'm sure my "locally owned coffee shop" is going to just love it next time I use an overhead projector or a 42 inch TV to present a deck to the team.

Not really... You don't wanna be that person talking on the phone all day. It's not good for you or the others around you trying to focus.

In a library being on a meeting flat out doesn't work

>What beans do they use?

Coffee beans

Mine has this "nitro" cold brew[1] on tap.

[1]: https://commonwealthjoe.com/

The one I go to (Portland, OR) used to have Stumptown on tap (that was awesome). But since WeWork went public, they’ve been getting contracts with some SysCo-esque food provider for cold brew/kombucha/seltzer. I forget the name of it but the cold brew is OK, not great but definitely not terrible.

It also has other people's beer in the fridge.