Thoughtworks reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(4,686 total reviews)
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Mike Sutcliff

75% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Thoughtworks has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,686 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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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3.0
Dec 7, 2012

Nice place...can be better

Recommend
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Pros

- Interesting people - Strong focus on social responsibility - Some good projects to work in - Good laptops, food and most of the crowd is actually nice

Cons

- Only "some" good projects; days of ThoughtWorks will do the most critical projects is over - Very little opportunities for mid-level folks coming in from outside

5.0
Nov 26, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

+ Best of the class developers. + Awesome Culture. + Social Impact Projects. + Wide range of technologies and promoting Polyglot developers. + Free food and juice counter. + Foos Ball, Pool, Table Tennis, and Carom. + Friendly HR Policies, such as unlimited Sick Leave, Mobile and Internet Allowance, Health and Wellness policy. + Follow Agile principles religiously to a great extend, such as Pair Programming, Information Radiator, Stand up meetings and IPMs. + Regular All hands meet to discuss the issues and updates with in the organization. + Various Internal Conferences, such as XConf and external Conferences, such as VodQA, DevCamp and RubyConf, that are used to share the state of the art technology updates. + Thoughtworks Technology Radar. + Away days at exotic locations such as Goa and Ooty.

Cons

- Accelerated Growth in short time, which would impact the culture. - Compensation is not at par with other companies that hold such potential people. - Work from Home is not practical for developers, as pair programming is a custom.

4.0
Nov 20, 2012

Nice place to work

Recommend
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Pros

There are some projects which really work on latest technologies People are really passionate about technology, you will get a chance to work on different tech stack starting from .net to Ruby etc... Pairing will coding at times could be very informative Pure agile company and work life balance is good. Company encourages to contribute to open source and giving seminars outside Thoughtworks. Flat hierarchy

Cons

Salary will be less compared to other top companies

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