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).
Was average interview... It took 5 hours to complete. Company was not hard to find... They asked many questions... Related to technical side and reasonable questions. They arranged breakfast, good thing, and an interactive session for parents about career guidance to their children
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Thoughtworks (Bengaluru) in Jan 2024
Interview
It consists of 3 rounds
1) pair programming round which consists of cloning repo in your language choice and given some user stories to work on them
2) technical round
Java, springboot, e-commerce design, lambdas, projects were asked
3) leadership round
Leadership qualities, scenario based queations
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Thoughtworks
Interview
The worst recruitment experience I have ever had.
The recruitment team is based overseas which is separate from the rest of the organisation and is horribly incompetent. They also appear to be completely unaccountable.
The recruitment team is based overseas and is horribly incompetent. There are 3-4 rounds of interviews depending on the role. Several times I had to follow up the recruitment team on booking times. For example, on the day of one of my interviews I noticed I hadn't been sent the zoom link for the interview. I followed up and after an hour I received the calendar invite on a different day and time along with 2 other emails with details of the interview which they didn't send before.
For my practical interview I was informed I would be sent the material 48 hours before the interview date. I hadn't received the material roughly 36 hours before my interview so I followed this up. They replied the next day and insisted they had sent the material, implied I was lying and asked if I needed 'additional time' to review the material. After a few back-and-forth emails they finally copied the email with the material they supposedly sent to me earlier, but what they copied didn't contain my email address (i.e. no proof it was sent to me)... They eventually agreed to reschedule the interview but I have no idea what they passed on to the decision-makers and if this affected my candidacy. After this interview they ghosted me. I emailed them a couple days after the interview asking for the outcome and next steps but I was completely ignored. I also followed up later. This is after 3 rounds of interviews and the interviewer after my last round commented that I did very well. I tried to reach out to the person responsible for this team to discuss these issue and provide feedback, but was ignored.
It is apparent that my candidacy was sabotaged in order to protect the incompetence of this team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What steps would you take if you were given a project at the sales stage (i.e. client not yet committed to the project)?
Thanks for taking the time to share your experience with us, and I’m sorry it wasn’t a more positive one for you. Feedback like this is important and we'd like to share it with the appropriate recruiting team to try and learn more about what happened and improve our process. Can you email me at tim.ogorman@thoughtworks.com and let me know who your lead recruiter was so I can provide your feedback to them?