Thoughtworks reviews

3.1

50% would recommend to a friend

(3,433 total reviews)
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Mike Sutcliff

56% approve of CEO

25% positive business outlook

Thoughtworks has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 3,433 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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4.0
Sep 4, 2014
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Pros

People. I cannot stress enough about how ThoughtWorks attracts some of the most talented people with their ridiculously arduous interview process. People make up the best of this organization. Oh, and there's also the cool technologies that you get to work with, in an enterprise setting. I also got to learn a lot while I was here, and not everything was in relation to technology. My learnings were in how to run a software project in a very uncertain environment. ThoughtWorks really does Agile right. I also learnt the importance and impact of Test Driven Development and cool concepts like Continuous Delivery and Integration. I also learnt a lot about philosophy, politics and Religion because the average workforce is a very vocal empowered set of people. I would definitely recommend this company to anyone looking to learn how to do software right and have fun in the process.

Cons

Pay was definitely under par to other companies in this space, but what really got to me, personally, was the quality of the work I was doing. Irrespective of the technologies that I was working with, the core job involved building integrations and building everyday applications. Scale problems were few and far between, on most days it was plain and simple CRUD. One of the other disappointing things was that the same kind of people got hired, the people who believed in the same technologies, methodologies and ideologies. It became an echo chamber of sorts and a lot of the talk didn't really convert to actions.

4.0
Sep 3, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Very open culture. Even the senior-most folk will listen to you and your opinion counts. Encourages contributions apart from regular work (Often goes out of the way to help employees working on open source). Excellent place to learn the trade and work with really smart people. Quality work over quantity (even on crappy projects).

Cons

The pay isn't great. Seen excellent people leave for much better salaries. You will occasionally land up in a particularly mundane or frustrating project. You have to be too vocal to get staffed on a project of your choice.

5.0
Aug 26, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

- smart, technically sound people - you will get to work with some of the thought leaders in the industry - free food, transparent environment, work life balance - global diversity - Agile thought leaders - Density of smart, technically sound people is almost comparable to biggies like Google

Cons

- Indian management is slight a disappointment. - Salary/Talent ratio is low

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