Thoughtworks reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(4,642 total reviews)
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Mike Sutcliff

79% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Thoughtworks has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,642 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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5K reviews
2.0
Jan 2, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are lots of smart technical people. Business and Project Managers are more like average though. The company behaves like a single global entity. There are no branches, there are only offices in different regions. Very nice office with free beverages, food, videogames and books. Most savvy people in software development know the company and that's good for your resume.

Cons

Likely to travel a lot and lose some money in the process and not everything will be expensed. HR is extremely ineffective. Resource Management process (allocation into projects) is just fire fighting. There is no plan and unless you're in good friends with senior management they don't know your skills or who you are. The office may be nice but you're always on client side. Managers are directly responsible for 100+ people and those people rely heavily on management for everything as they're on client side. Account management is fire fighting as well. Most good tech people are leaving and new hires are not filling the gap.

3.0
Dec 30, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You will work with smart people. ThoughtWorks' reputation makes it relatively easy to get conference and book proposals accepted. The company is very dedicated to improving the state of the art of software development. Work with people who have significant experience using agile processes in both the typical situations as well as those areas that other's know little about such as large (100+ developers) and distributed (across multiple continents) projects. You will have the opportunity to work internationally.

Cons

Regular travel to boring places. Very hard to be exceptional in this crowd. Low compensation. Company is barely financially viable. International experience is required to reach the higher positions in the organization.

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