Thoughtworks reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(4,647 total reviews)
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78% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Thoughtworks has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,647 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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1.0
Dec 23, 2018

Don't join TW

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Pros

Food and Car parking is something I liked

Cons

Designing of system or Lack of it: The system design is the topic no one wants to touch. Whenever they talk about design, it should come from tests. Since I worked for 5 years where test cases had meaning to validate the logic, here the test means to design which no one uses. Pair Programming: Its the biggest nightmare. It's really hard to convince a person who has a totally different mindset about the approach than you and what you end up doing is wasting time. Also if you are not doing test-driven development(TDD), you are a bad developer. I find it to be totally nonsense topic. Team Leads: The know really fancy words and how they work but they have no idea of how to implement it. The thing can be solved be simple design will be rejected. What they need is million of transactions, Kafka zookeeper consul and what not. Most of the time they don't even know what's the uses case of these services. People Champions: The HR team lacks the skill of talking and motivating people. All they know that they are the best in the world. TW is solving one of biggest problems in the world. Favoritism: The lead will pick the people. He will decide who will work on what. If you are on good terms with your leads he will give you awesome tasks else it's really hard for you to even switch the jobs here. This is the only principle that works here. If you have an intention to have a good carrier, please avoid this organization.

1.0
Jan 22, 2018

Times are changing

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Pros

Historically, very strong technical leadership and trusted business leaders globally and in most countries. 5 years ago - this was the go to tech consulting company doing amazing things with its clients and in the industry - not so much anymore.

Cons

Times are changing. Most of the leading technical leaders are gone - frustrated by lack of leadership from the top. Business leaders are very frustrated with CEO vision and are either checked out or leaving. Only likely to get worst with recent acquisition. If you are thinking of joining, dig deep to make sure you understand exactly what you will be doing, and what expectations are for you in your role.

2.0
Aug 30, 2016

“too smart for their own good"

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Pros

ThoughtWorks is great at helping clients and cares about making a difference through social activism. Very intelligent technical minds. Great group of diverse people from all over the world.

Cons

Consensus decision-making creates unnecessary levels of bureaucracy. 100% travel burns great ThoughtWorkers out and makes it difficult to recruit top engineers. Very political organization. It's about who your know. There is a sense of entitlement with long-time ThoughtWorkers.

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