The hiring process at Thoughtworks takes an average of 60 days when considering 1 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Consultant had the quickest hiring process (on average 60 days), whereas Consultant roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 60 days).
I have never faced such a ridiculous interview in my life. They had given a problem to design a solution. The problem they had given was not a great and complex problem. I had given a solution following the SOLID principles and Object Oriented concepts properly which is highly extensible. I have around 12 years of experience in total and I'm completely in the field of designing applications for last 6 years. After I had completed the design a lady came to review the solution. I think that lady was expecting a simple and straight forward solution which any layman can design and the solution which I had given had gone over her head. She was not able to understand the complexity of the design whhich I have made. She had given me some more requirements to extend the design which I could easily incorporate in the solution which I had given as my solution was following all the standards of SOLID. But still she did not like the solution and argued with me about some base less points and still I was able to overcome all her arguements. I think she took everything personally her ego got hurt a lot and I was through ;) :P
The HR was claiming the company to believe only in quality but after the interview experience and seeing the technical abilities of the interviewer all her claims had proven to be false. The only thing I liked in that company was the Security person who would always ask you to have lunch in their canteen before leaving.. :P :P
So, guys if you have a lot of time to waste you can go Thoughtworks for attending an interview.
I applied online. I interviewed at Thoughtworks (Bengaluru) in Aug 2017
Interview
Extremely unorganized interview process. Ordinary company with snobbish people (they know everything and candidate knows nothing!) .
As a typical services company - they do not appreciate / acknowledge effort put by candidate to complete assessment (over weekends) and prepare himself/ herself for interview.
They gets surprised that how come a candidate is talking to panel face to face when nobody from Thought works spoke them over a call.
Nice words written in their website about valuing people - but as it turns out - they do not "practice what they preach".
The list is too long to fit here - but guess you folks got the message!
If you are appearing for an interview and you are serious about it - please be ready to acknowledge that you might be wasting a lot of time to bear with "disruptive" thinkers aka Thought workers.
Good luck.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me to talk about myself - my professional career - academics and explain 2 recent projects
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Thoughtworks in Jun 2017
Interview
Long process started with submitting a Google form with some interesting facts about you, followed by a telephonic round and then two rounds of face to face technical interviews (all case study based, mostly hypothetical).
That followed by a fitment interview (HR) and finally a discussion to check your social justice quotient.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Social justice round: If you had two candidates, a male and a female, both of equal caliber, who would you choose as your next CEO?