This used to be a great place to work, with amazing culture and values, a respect for employees and minorities, and an extra care for good practices. Since we went publicly available, everything went off.
Values and culture are not respected anymore, we don't provide any value to our clients, we just lend workforce like any other consultancy firm in the world. On top of that, the management does practically nothing; almost all of the bureaucracy, client management, etc. has to be done by the folks that are also doing the actual work.
Not only that, but we sell workers to the clients in a category that we are not really in (like eg. selling a consultant as a senior), adding even more burden to our pour souls.
I can understand that in some cases you have to perform over your current grade to show that you can be switched to the next one, but they also have changed the performance review system to make it more about micromanagement than anything else.
If all of these wasn't enough, salaries have been frozen for +2 years with no perspective to be updated. Same with salary bands.
When it comes to work and life balance, they are clearly pushing to remove remote work, but this is a problem because lots of us don't live even close to the offices. So how the company is solving this "issue"? They are making work conditions worst to force employees to leave and hire new ones with new contracts.
They also moved from country based decision making to whole Europe based decision making. The reasoning was (amongst others) to share brilliant minds accross the continent. The reality is they are letting people go from most expensive european countries and hiring them in the affordable ones.
We also used to be an environmental friendly company, but not anymore. We changed from a sustainable business to an indefinite growing model, and we now support technologies like GenAI, which are a fraud and VERY bad for the environment, without anyone even questioning any of it.
Thoughtworks is now not even a shade of what it was.
