Thoughtworks reviews

Traveling 4-5 days per week is difficult for everyone except young, single people. Not a sustainable lifestyle for most people as they approach more advanced years and want a family. There is also a glass ceiling on both responsibility and pay so that retaining experienced people is very difficult. Experienced people find themselves mostly in a teaching role and many leave. The culture is a bit cultish and insular. If you are expecting to rise in the ranks of management, you need to be on board with the company dogma and social values, and leftish political slant. The Owner Roy is completely focused on growth and this is at odds with the consultants desire for interesting work on innovative projects. Pay is not very competitive particularly for more experienced people. Projects sometimes feel bloated and high cost to clients. We could be much more lean and become more price competitive.

Salary - In some regions is just not enough to go by, really. If you don't work on some core areas they are insulting, in fact. Poor communication (externally and internally) - There is an effort but it's weak and uncoordinated and goes in an erratic way. There's a very naive belief that using Marketing techniques is evil an unnecessary and it's harming the company immensely. Politics - On every place you can find good and bad people. The bad people at ThoughtWorks are unfortunately very good at pretend they are not bad and deceive the ones that are not looking closely. It's heart breaking to see how much damage they cause to get what they want. Great concepts, poor execution - There a number of amazing initiatives that are just a concept or in fact only poor executed. TWers are great on starting things and not so good to keep they going, when they are not at the core of their roles. Lots of great ideas are dropped and forgotten just because organisation and practicality is not the big asset around...