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      Thoughtworks

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      4.0

      79% would recommend to a friend

      (4,649 total reviews)
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      Mike Sutcliff

      78% approve of CEO

      57% positive business outlook

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      4.4

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.2

      Culture & values

      4.1

      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 4,649 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
      4.0
      Nov 15, 2018

      Take advantage of the travel

      Lead software developer
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      Pros

      * Endless travel possibilities. Instead of flying home for the weekend, fly somewhere else! ✈️ * Diverse work opportunities. Every project is wildly different, which gives you tons of valuable experience. A couple of years at ThoughtWorks is like 5+ years in the tech industry bouncing around jobs. 💪 * Leading the industry in women in technology! 👩‍💻 * The culture here actively encourages examining really important social and economic issues such as racism, privilege, diversity in technology, the free and open Internet, etc. 🤔 * Fair compensation, especially when taking into account the travel perks (expense account while on the road) and other benefits. 💵 * Unlike some other consultancies, being un-staffed (“on the beach”) does not have any negative connotations. No worry of being fired or something. 🏝

      Cons

      * Be ready for 50+ hour weeks. 40 hours of billable time for your project plus travel time (at least 8 hours a week) plus any non-billable you do such as interviews, office events, etc. 😪 * Typically high stress. Projects are often on a tight deadline with a demanding client. Projects can get cancelled all of a sudden. On top of that, traveling can be stressful too. Flights getting delayed or cancelled, dealing with hotel bookings, all add to the taxing nature of a traveling consultant lifestyle. 😰 * Lots of projects are in slow-moving, enterprise IT environments. Don’t expect to be working with hip tech companies. Expect huge organizations that move like a tanker ship, locked down laptops, frozen middle management, stuffy offices full of cubicles, and dress codes. 🏢 * Specializing in anything is hard. While you do have some say in what projects you get staffed on, its mostly luck of the draw for whatever happens to be available when you become available. 🍀

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      Thoughtworks Response
      7y
      Thank you for such an honest and thoughtful review. I'm so glad that you recognize how diverse the experience can be here at ThoughtWorks, as well as our active commitment to social and economic justice and women in tech. As for the hours and stress, I think that's just part of the consulting world so we encourage people to take full advantage of their travel and wellness benefits and time off. We also try to look out for each other and provide support wherever needed. With regard to the nature of our projects, yes we do work with lots of large enterprises who hire us for the reasons you mention. They come to us with big, ambitious missions and know they need to move faster, be more agile, bring tech to the core of their business, change their culture and unlock people and potential. As you know, each journey is very different but it's exciting when you get to see you're having an impact. Thank you again for your feedback! - Nicole
      1.0
      Aug 12, 2015

      Thoughtworks review

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Nothing good about this Company

      Cons

      Most Worst company, which u can ever see. They dont Know Languages other then c ,c++ and java

      1.0
      Mar 23, 2015

      Interesting place but has a lot of issues

      Senior software consultant
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      Pros

      I worked with some great and even a few exceptional people, learned a lot, had some fun times, some nice benefits, great way to see/hear about different areas of the software business.

      Cons

      It can be vaguely cultish, you are pretty much expected to LOVE Thoughtworks and be 100% on board with their way of doing things. Especially when it comes to Agile ideas, lots of dogma here. They are constantly pushing how great it is to work at TW, this really bugged me after a few months. Lots of corporate politics, they claim they are above them but in some ways they are as bad or worse than their corporate clients. There are also quite a few people around who have been with the company for a long time and form an 'in crowd', how well you do in the company has a lot to do with how how good your relationship is with those people. This can mean the difference between getting a raise, promotion, good work assignment or not. Feels very Frat house like and not in a good way. Thoughtworks markets themselves both externally and internally as being an elite company with top developers. As a result of this the are quite a few people with very inflated egos who make sure everyone else knows how great they are. If you ask the wrong question or like the 'wrong' technology they will belittle you. Think obnoxious people on forums, IRC, etc, it can be bad. The pay is not that great, they expect you to work longs hours and go over and above for the company without compensation. Getting stuck on a weekly flight commute sucks, a 4 hour flight every Monday at 6 am and Thursday at 9 pm gets miserable fast. The travel can be fun but few people enjoy it for more than 6 months to a year. Developer turnover is high, a lot of unhappy people, I have never worked for a company with such a high level of employee misery. There is a weird contrast where you have people who are very positive and then people who are miserable and sometimes the same person will display both depending on the situation. That can happen anywhere but at TW it is on a whole new level and comes with the consulting territory I guess.

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