Thoughtworks reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(4,685 total reviews)
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Mike Sutcliff

76% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Thoughtworks has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,685 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
Sep 20, 2023
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Pros

- Public speaking is expected and encouraged - Writing blogs is expected and encouraged - By chance of luck and connections, the potential to get a variety of projects - You can thrive with just internal connections and sounding confident so it's a thriving ground for incompetent

Cons

First things first, ThoughtWorks is a company that was respected due to its core engineering values for which clients used to pay and partner with them. Those values were gone ages ago and the hiring bar has not been the same anymore for several years. They are just a glorified consultancy just as many other large consultancy companies out there. The Australian region is the worst-performing region across the globe. The leaders in the Australian region are awful and have no real engineering background (some of them were software testers) and have grown as in most consultancy companies with sheer internal connections. Most people with sales and good communication skills have gone up the ranks and they've pulled up people similar to them to form a mutual benefit society. Even during redundancies, this company was so unethical that they made the least connected (not performing) people within the organization redundant first. That speaks volumes about their culture and ethics which they boast about 365 days a year.

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Thoughtworks Response
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Thank you for taking the time to write a review and provide your feedback. I'm sorry to hear that your time at Thoughtworks was not a positive experience for you. If you're open to it I'd like to chat about some of the feedback that you provided and learn more about your time at Thoughtworks. Please reach out to me at tim.ogorman@thoughtworks.com.
5.0
Aug 22, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Thoughtworks has an amazing culture and a wondeful place to work; you learn skills you'd never learn anywhere else, and world-leading approaches to work

Cons

Pay has stagnated with inflation - the company isn't getting enough work and struggles to offer competitive salaries. Also IPOing means some of the previous freedom and transparency has gone - the company attempts to remain ethical but the client base has shifted and now includes places such as BP, who have great claims of improvement but still appear to be greenwashing. The culture is still great, but it remains to be seen how long it will stay great.

2.0
Aug 17, 2023

Bad pay and worse culture

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Pros

Good tech stack people good learning wise ok ok

Cons

Pathetic mgmt, layoffs, peanut pay structure, late nights, hectic work life balance always.

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