Thoughtworks reviews

3.1

45% would recommend to a friend

(3,429 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 3,429 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
Jun 29, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Company has a structure very close to a flat hierarchy. Most people are really smart, and fun to work with. Company is fairly keen towards keeping its employees happy.

Cons

Compensation is not at par with the best, considering the sort of talent they seek. They have their philosophy around why it should be that way, but the times have changed since the time of inception of this company and so should their philosophy or else they will continue to lose good talent to that bunch of upcoming smart companies who offer almost everything that TW offer, along with exciting challenge and good pay. Another thing is that they seem to be stuck up in terms of the kind of projects they are taking. One might feel like a bit unused to their full potential. Some of the big long going projects have a fairly large number of people who are mere cribbers, so that sort of negativity on the floor sometimes hurt your productivity or the satisfaction that you might have otherwise acquired from your work.

2.0
Jun 21, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

- smart people - technology leaders - positive culture - very poor management and leadership, with little to no qualifications

Cons

- "relationships matter more than results" is what the management states as a core value, so ti comes down to who you know and who likes you, rather than results, which encourages politics over productivity - the average employment is less than 2 yrs - company lacks diversity, below the industry average, although it's a core value and objective - equality among workers doesn't really exist

5.0
Jun 15, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

At ThoughtWorks, you get to work with some of the best people in industry. Also, you get to work with different technologies and practices like TDD and Pair programming.

Cons

At ThoughtWorks, you might need to do lot of travel as an Agile coach or consultant. Depending on your family situation, this may or may not work out easily.

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