My recruiter contacted me the very next day after submitting my profile to ThoughtWorks website. She indicated that TW is looking for senior technologists and influential consultants (like myself) to help shape their client engagements in North America. From what I understand, ThoughWorks has a lot of green talent (new college grads, and those making a career change), along with a cadre of long-timers who are less-willing to travel to client sites these days. So at this point, they're interested in filling the gap by hiring new Lead and Principal consultants who have flexibility to travel at least four days per week, from their home-base. (No need to relocate to TW hub.) My interview experience consisted of the following: - Background, Skills & Interests screening with the recruiter over the phone. - Fulfilled a fun test-driven development programming problem, at home. It took about 8 hours to complete. - Personality test (online) - Flight & one night hotel stay in Chicago prior to in-person interview at corporate headquarters. (I was surprised to learn that TW HQ is simply two nearly vacant floors of a tall office building.) - One hour interview about my consulting & engineering team leadership skills - One hour interview about TW's "Third Pillar". - One hour pair programming interview, refactoring & enhancing my programming exercise on my laptop. - Lunch (in a conference room by myself) - 15 minute IQ Test - 45 minute Logic Test consisting of strange state-flow diagrams (not fun). - Short tour around the office - A few days later I was invited to a video conference with the Chicago office Director. -- He spent about an hour going on and on about TW's client engagement model. -- Than he asked a few questions about my career path & what I would see myself doing within their organization. At that time he used bully-tactics to pigeon-hole me into a much lower-paying role (Lead rather than Principle). Not cool. - A few days later my Recruiter contacted me to offer a role that payed much less than my expectations. So I politely declined.

Series of interviews with various department heads with various focusses on how my engagement could leverage their expertise to win new logos. Each wanted to understand various scenarios and how I'd approach them.