Thoughtworks reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(4,647 total reviews)
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Mike Sutcliff

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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3.0
Nov 4, 2015
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Pros

Diverse, and some really very smart people, people who can teach you a world every single day. Fun and mostly relaxed place to work. You easily make very good friends here. Free food. Opportunities to travel.

Cons

Salary. Don't expect to move up the ladder if you don't slog more than the required hours every day. It's expected of you to do more than your responsibilities. The free & open culture that made this place what it is is deteriorating very very fast, old timers are getting unhappier with every passing day, some of them have already quit. The company is slowly & steadily moving into the direction of organizations like TCS, Infosys etc. where they are hiring (not so smart) people without any mind and putting them on the beach (bench). Some projects are really very bad and people staffed on them are growing unhappy every day and yet somehow these clients have become the most important to ThoughtWorks India. The technology focus is slowly waning and the upper management which is mostly non-techy is vehemently trying to promote a culture where the client's business would become much more important than being a tech-first company, even in the face of staunch opposition from the technologists. We're no longer about tech at core. For an organization which has a claim to flat hierarchy agility, it's becoming far too process oriented. The culture is changing so fast that many old timers don't connect with it any more but favoritism for people who do connect is increasing every day. Politics is increasing too. Fake Social and Economic justice campaigns. The company prides itself with a commitment to social and economic justice, something which is one of the foundational pillars of this company (P3). But it is mostly a sugar coated term for promoting the leftist, socialist agenda of its American founder who thinks he knows better about India than Indians. This has led to formal associations with CPI & CPM backed organizations which is really scary. Bottomline - the best time to join and work for ThoughtWorks has passed and I can only see the company getting worse off from here.

1.0
Jul 16, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

It has beautiful outlook of really cool startup with all groovy interiors. But in reality, Its just like any software service company, struggling with business and finding its own identity. It is living on past glory and current politics. Once upon a time, these were the pioneers who wrote libraries of core java, defined what Agile meant. But it failed to sustain that culture of being leader. There are few good people to get insight from. But lately, most of them just became anarchist. Less business and more of this leftist activist thing for social cause. Both of them are failing miserably for basic reasons, like honesty and integrity.

Cons

As far as UX is concerned, since company itself is dealing with new methodologies of "Agile", the UX needs to align to it. Unfortunately, UX leadership comes with no formal background of design. A. It doesn't clearly understand the difference between BA and UX. B. The interview process for UX is extremely weird. One has to go through some logic test and later a role playing kind-a QA. Its absolutely unclear what UX leadership is expecting from designer. Its neither design question nor a design process questions. There is sense of insecurity in UX leadership, which shows up as they defend their views at work. The process and structure for UX is not undefined. Advise for management: Specially for Thoughtworks, UX is key enabler to fetch/retain projects. Consider investing/changing UX leadership (at least for Pune, other Bangalore/Noida teams seem decently good)

1.0
Apr 14, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

They hire, or try to hire good people. In reality, there are actually a few good people there. The intention is to revolutionise software engineering and also give back to humanity while doing so. A bunch of people actually do something about this.

Cons

There are a few people who control what happens from behind the scenes. Management can do nothing since these have the backing of key global leaders. Result is that these people pretty much have their way on any issue they choose to blunder into. They have something called a Pan African agenda which is basically a whole lot of poppycock that they hold global meetings about while not really changing anything on the ground for the real people. There's a clique which drives this and tries to exclude everyone else. If you are white, then better to stay away from here as you'll just get sidelined for some trumped up reason. The pay is way below market standards if you have any sort of competence.

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