Thoughtworks reviews

Company says they want to focus and grow the design so they decided to put two head of design for a team of 20 people? which doesn't make any sense. I have been working with them for quite a long time now and I can say both lack design skills and the leader mindset.  All they can do is just one thing... "TALK". Both can't deliver. I doubt if they have ever done any end to end design delivery.  Both head of design behave like mothers "do this, do that". They don't want to give autonomy to the team and want to control everything. Yup almost everything. e.g if both are busy the team gets messages like we can't make it today, let's cancel today's meet. We'll put something new" which never happens. Every team conversation is just about two buzz words, 'Value' and 'Impact' but the team always wonders what exactly does that mean? I bet just like the team they also don't know what both words are and they just use them to show off. It's quite common in the office to use buzz words. Both ladies have two faces. One for TW & SG leadership team and this face is very shiny, everything is going excellent, we are leaders and design is adding tremendous value, another one is with a team which is very dark and scary. There is literally zero team communication which happens because nobody has any interest. Why because both leaders fail to create that environment for the team which TW MD's and HR failed to see and understand.Team feels both are incapable and lousy design leaders. It's just no one wants to talk about this because all they care about is just doing the job and getting a salary. Everyone in the design team is on the verge of leaving TW because of these two. Maybe that's the reason people have started moving out of TW. There are other tons of points but i know nothing will happen because TW MD's will just talk to these two and both are smart enough to cover and brainwash MD's. It's just hopeless. They have decided to hire Sr and Lead designers instead of promoting internally. Why? Because both leaders fail to connect designers/team or mentor designers so that they can grow.  All both care about is their 'own' growth and faking around. Question is who will save TW SG Design team?

I feel like ThoughtWorks gives the impression that they care about your professional development, but really they just care about their bottom line. An unavoidable portion of their clients are staff augmentation positions, not consulting. If you're in it for P3 (in other words, their social and economic justice arm), that is more of a marketing ploy than anything. With the acquisition, slowly every program not devoted to the bottom line is becoming obsolete. They usually don't have the influence to be involved at a higher level and when they do, a lot of politics is involved in getting to be a part of those projects. There is very little opportunity for introverted people. Day 1 they tell you that ThoughtWorks is a networking company, so if you are not willing to spend a night or two (at least) networking with ThoughtWorkers, prepare to be placed on the least desirable projects and have no say in where you go. Due to general company culture and intensive travel requirements, there is very little work life balance.