Does Thoughtworks pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Thoughtworks employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.6 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Thoughtworks. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Thoughtworks?

79% of Thoughtworks employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Thoughtworks 4.2 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.2 for culture and values and 3.9 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Thoughtworks?

Senior Consultant (605) , Applications Developer (364) , Consultant (283) , Lead Consultant (260) , Software Developer (193) , Software Engineer (159) , Business Analyst (146) , Senior Software Engineer (141) , Consultant Developer (132) , Quality Analyst (87) , Principal Consultant (83) , Project Manager (79) , Application Developer (68) , Senior Business Analyst (61) , Senior Software Developer (56)

What are the pros of working at Thoughtworks according to real employee reviews?

"The culture here is so great that you'll simply get attached to it because of that." ((in 795 reviews)); "I have met a few great people here that I would want to continue a friendship with outside of work." ((in 620 reviews)); "Pure agile company and work life balance is good." ((in 390 reviews)); "Fun and good work culture." ((in 237 reviews)); "Great colleagues to learn from" ((in 172 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Thoughtworks according to real employee reviews?

"Low salaries for Brazilian employees and not so much interesting projects... Hard to change to work on green field projects." ((in 251 reviews)); "Pay is low and internal ways of promotion are very biased depending on the leadership you are under" ((in 106 reviews)); "recent trend of frequent layoffs" ((in 90 reviews)); "No leadership on the ground." ((in 71 reviews)); "2. Leadership team is disastrous." ((in 15 reviews))

What are employees saying about Thoughtworks layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Thoughtworks layoffs and their outlook for job security at Thoughtworks in 2026.

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4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(4,685 total reviews)

Mike Sutcliff

75% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.4

Diversity & inclusion

4.2

Culture & values

4.2

Work/Life balance

3.9

Career opportunities

3.6

Senior management

3.6

Compensation and benefits

Thoughtworks has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,685 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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5K reviews

5.0

Oct 3, 2014

Amazing

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Culture, People, Flat, Social, Software Excellence

Cons

Set to be the next big thing . Need to ensure that we get the right people in at this crucial growth stage.

4.0

Sep 30, 2014

I gained so much experience and many new job skills here

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The people! Smart, Forward thinking, movers and shakers. They promote from within. International company and contacts.

Cons

There are consultants who make the company money, and they are treated like gods. Then there is everyone else. All Support or administrative staff merely cost the company money. No real hierarchy or chain to go up with issues. Its common and expected for people to work well over 40 hours a week, that's the bare minimum.

4.0

Sep 4, 2014

Loved the experience of working here

Applications developer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

People. I cannot stress enough about how ThoughtWorks attracts some of the most talented people with their ridiculously arduous interview process. People make up the best of this organization. Oh, and there's also the cool technologies that you get to work with, in an enterprise setting. I also got to learn a lot while I was here, and not everything was in relation to technology. My learnings were in how to run a software project in a very uncertain environment. ThoughtWorks really does Agile right. I also learnt the importance and impact of Test Driven Development and cool concepts like Continuous Delivery and Integration. I also learnt a lot about philosophy, politics and Religion because the average workforce is a very vocal empowered set of people. I would definitely recommend this company to anyone looking to learn how to do software right and have fun in the process.

Cons

Pay was definitely under par to other companies in this space, but what really got to me, personally, was the quality of the work I was doing. Irrespective of the technologies that I was working with, the core job involved building integrations and building everyday applications. Scale problems were few and far between, on most days it was plain and simple CRUD. One of the other disappointing things was that the same kind of people got hired, the people who believed in the same technologies, methodologies and ideologies. It became an echo chamber of sorts and a lot of the talk didn't really convert to actions.

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