Thoughtworks reviews

- Low salaries with unreal expectations - we get paid peanuts but are expected to not only perform you regular work but also do community related work. - If you do all of this, it will not affect your review/appraisal. The appraisal process is not transparent, and every one gets the same hike irrespective of the work that you do. So it is useless to do any community work. The management is stupid enough to think that employees don't discuss their appraisals. - It is a company that claims to be transparent but it definitely is not. Right from the selection process for Global Assignments to how they come up with hikes for each person, is not transparent. - The so called Management Team is a bunch of idiots. People get into the management team due to certain reservations and not because they can handle the role or they are fit for it. - They claim to be a flat organization, however there are invisible levels of hierarchy. - Hypocrisy is at its best when people sit in 5 star hotels and talk about the under previliged. - It might have been a great company at some point of time, but I don't see the difference between it and any other services company. - If you suck up to the right people, it doesn't matter if you do your regular work or not. You will get Global Assignments and grade changes and 'awesome' hikes. - The OP at Bangalore is extremely diplomatic and spineless. They tell you what you want to hear, whether it is true or not. - When I was joining, I was asked to join quickly as I there are new projects coming in and I will get to work on a green-field project. One year is over and I am working on a project that has been around for about 3-4 years. - There are very few projects and from what I can see, there is no new work that is going to come next year. - The top management is disconnected from the people. They get their reports from middle management who always tell them that things are fine. - People = resources. We used to be considered "people" earlier, but now it is just like any other services based company. - I have heard about topics that are discussed in the P3 round and that people are rejected based on their opinions on a certain topic. Is this legal? Can someone be denied employment due to their opinions? - You can get through the P3 round if you are pro-poor and a socialist. It is easy!

* This company has quite figuratively turned to garbage in terms of the skillfulness and brilliance of the developers. Weak pursues are hired, time and again to meet the numbers, and the management itself is irrational and confused. * People with less skill but a big mouth are the only ones who grow within the company. Very often, developers send all-office mails talking about stupid problems that have been already solved, in order to just make themselves visible. Hardwork and real talent is unrecognized whereas your personal rapport with people is what determines your salary hike. The successful people are the ones who do 2-3 hours of work in a day, and spend the rest of the time engaging in mindless banter with people higher up in the management. * The quality of software projects has come down to becoming absolute garbage. The planning and architecting of projects is so ridiculously done that leads to multiple rewrites and refactoring to resolve major issues that come up well into the development of the project post it's inception. * Weightage is given to those with a big mouth. Whether it be international opportunities, or project opportunities, or role changes or choice of a technology stack - you will get all these only if you have spent the majority of your time in the company chatting up and sucking up to people instead of actually having worked for it.