Does Thoughtworks pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Thoughtworks employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.6 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Thoughtworks. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Thoughtworks?

79% of Thoughtworks employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Thoughtworks 4.2 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.2 for culture and values and 3.9 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Thoughtworks?

Senior Consultant (605) , Applications Developer (364) , Consultant (283) , Lead Consultant (260) , Software Developer (193) , Software Engineer (159) , Business Analyst (146) , Senior Software Engineer (141) , Consultant Developer (132) , Quality Analyst (87) , Principal Consultant (83) , Project Manager (79) , Application Developer (68) , Senior Business Analyst (61) , Senior Software Developer (56)

What are the pros of working at Thoughtworks according to real employee reviews?

"The culture here is so great that you'll simply get attached to it because of that." ((in 795 reviews)); "I have met a few great people here that I would want to continue a friendship with outside of work." ((in 620 reviews)); "Pure agile company and work life balance is good." ((in 390 reviews)); "Fun and good work culture." ((in 237 reviews)); "Great colleagues to learn from" ((in 172 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Thoughtworks according to real employee reviews?

"Low salaries for Brazilian employees and not so much interesting projects... Hard to change to work on green field projects." ((in 251 reviews)); "Pay is low and internal ways of promotion are very biased depending on the leadership you are under" ((in 106 reviews)); "recent trend of frequent layoffs" ((in 90 reviews)); "No leadership on the ground." ((in 71 reviews)); "2. Leadership team is disastrous." ((in 15 reviews))

What are employees saying about Thoughtworks layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Thoughtworks layoffs and their outlook for job security at Thoughtworks in 2026.

Thoughtworks reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(4,686 total reviews)

Mike Sutcliff

75% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

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Thoughtworks has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,686 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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2.0

Mar 31, 2015

Mixed Bag

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

The people of the company has to be the biggest strength at Thoughtworks. Work life balance is ok. The developer community is also ok and Agile is practiced all acrss. The nice office space is laid out well. Professional approach with clients and good image in the developer community.

Cons

Lots of politics ruining a good company. Artificial roles like Strategic Recruitment have been cleverly created for incompetent people to hide within the system. Time for the Chairman to wake up and figure out whats happening at India office.

2.0

May 28, 2014

bad place

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

None that I can list out, no pros could be thought for thoughtworks

Cons

no scope to grow, only politics, bad hierarchy. bad compensation

1.0

Mar 17, 2014

Dismal

Consultant

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Looks good on a resume

Cons

Administration runs things like amateurs and is generally retributive and unrprofessional

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