Thoughtworks reviews

3.1

45% would recommend to a friend

(3,421 total reviews)
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Mike Sutcliff

56% approve of CEO

28% positive business outlook

Thoughtworks has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 3,421 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Thoughtworks employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Feb 28, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Most people in professional services roles "on the ground" delivering to clients are great. Most client facing leaders care about the people and delivering to the client. So when working on a client project things are mostly pretty good. Learning is encouraged

Cons

New senior leadership is taking what used to be a great company and grinding it down. Legacy leaders that took the company down over the past few years are not held accountable for the sad state it has come to, and continue the path of mismanagement. It is almost like they dont know how to run a services organization. Leaders promoted from within are in way over their heads. Decisions are always by committees and usual are just not made. Common sense does not prevail. No raises, minimal promotions. Many years ago communications were open and honest, now they are mostly corporate speak and mostly untruths. It seems like the goal currently is to drive to metrics in order to sell the company and not about making this company great again.

1.0
Feb 11, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Smart people who know tons about technology. Although, you may never meet these people.

Cons

The pay is awful, they base pay off whether or not you have a CS degree and not experience. They try as hard as possible to hide this information. They say they are about work family balance but they don't.

2.0
Oct 11, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good place for unexperienced people Some good people still in the company

Cons

Consultants are at the mercy of sales and management. Recently a large amount of experienced consultants have been leaving the company due to the way the company is managed, which reflects on the quality of projects being sold and how they are run. Travel can be very tiresome and in many cases it's arbitrary. Experience in different offices vary wildly. I've found that the USA is the most problematic country to work at, due to the politics, and sheer management immaturity.

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