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
Oct 16, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

If you need the freedom to be whatever you want, they will support you with it. It is good for people to pursue their passion. If you are proactive you will really succeed and be supported here. There are different types of projects and Social Impact initiatives you can work on. The company respects their employees a lot which is great. Perks are pretty great. You can attend conferences and take part in competitions and you have 100% TW support. If you are single and want to only focus on your career now, this is the job for you. You get to travel and learn a LOT. But you have to work your way up for good projects.

Cons

There is a lot of travel, getting on a flight every sunday night to a client site and back on thursday/friday evening. If you are not a travel person, this is not for you. They are pretty honest about the travel, but they say it depends on the client. If you are lucky you wont travel as much in the bay area is what I have heard. You can be on bench ("on beach" - thats what TWers call it) for longer than you want to be, then you are assigned to a local project till you don't even realize you are there to stay. They say they will work things out for you, they wont - they are a business and will think about what the business wants. They say the culture is great - doesnt work for everyone. Unless you are ThoughtWorky-crazy, you are not considered normal. Some of the consultants are nice and helpful, but watch out for some snobs who don't empathize with you not being from the same country as they might be. Some of them think its OK to be really mean making fun of your lack of cultural knowledge. The more arrogant and noisy you are the more influential in how things are done. They are a pretty tight knit group since they all travel across countries. This could also mean that words about you spreads faster than you have a chance to prove yourself. Dont fall for all the promises the recruiter might make that you will be getting a lot of training and you will get to work on a lot of great projects. Look beyond these false promises and decide whether your lifestyle would really suit this.

4.0
Oct 14, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Forces you to use not just your technical skills but consultancy as well. You have the freedom (as well the responsibility) to work on things that you believe are not ok in the company, even if it's not regarding your daily-basis activities.

Cons

The technical side was limited. Even that the culture, enviromment, customers and projects are challenging and exciting, you spend most of your day doing the same thing. Great for juniors and former students, bad for seniors. Salaries are not the best as well.

4.0
Oct 14, 2012

Awesome, Mind blowing.

Recommend
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Pros

Culture, Quality of people, collaboration, attitude of people. You feel you are in a democratic company. They provide you with a great work life balance. The freedom in terms of time, the way you work - just brings out the best in you.

Cons

Internal politics in Pune office. You need to butter the management to rise up, else you stay where you are.

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