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 (607) , Applications Developer (364) , Consultant (283) , Lead Consultant (260) , Software Developer (193) , Software Engineer (160) , Business Analyst (146) , Senior Software Engineer (141) , Consultant Developer (132) , Quality Analyst (87) , Principal Consultant (83) , Project Manager (79) , Application Developer (69) , 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 789 reviews)); "I have met a few great people here that I would want to continue a friendship with outside of work." ((in 621 reviews)); "Pure agile company and work life balance is good." ((in 393 reviews)); "Fun and good work culture." ((in 240 reviews)); "Good benefits &flexibility Diversity is there and lot of activities are there for employees development" ((in 122 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 255 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 93 reviews)); "2. Leadership team is disastrous." ((in 17 reviews)); "Tough interview process, but thorough." ((in 6 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

(4,693 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 4,693 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

3.0

Jul 12, 2017

Consulting is difficult.

Senior devops engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

Great for new folks fresh out of college looking to see the world and the business.

Cons

Not very good for lateral hires. Difficult to focus on a one specific thing ( like devops in my case ).

3.0

Apr 1, 2017

Bad leadership at office level esp Chennai

Senior consultant developer

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

The work style is still better than other Indian IT services company Flexible work timings and Work from home options No restrictive policies or processes Can run your own pet projects Good place for developers to learn and showcase their talents Good office infrastructure and benefits like free breakfast and lunch, snacks, coffee, juice etc

Cons

Coterie run by office principal in Chennai office and his political outlook for everything from projects to appraisals People champion in Chennai office is a disgrace to the company Bad projects nowadays which does not give developers much to work with other than listening to clients whimsical requests In pursuit of growth, they have gone behind large enterprisey clients. So no cool projects or small projects in Chennai

2.0

Oct 22, 2016

Thoughtowrks Pune taught me that to be a good developer one doesn't have to be a Thoughtworker

Senior consultant

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

At times you might get sufficient free time to research and gain expertise in an area

Cons

All these comments are specific to Thoughtworks Pune haven't been to other offices. 1. Not transparent 2. Most of the projects not good, a few of them are not even agile 3. Most of the senior staff has left 4. After getting hired you could be staffed on crapy projects where you will forget what you already know 5. You might even not get to write code for months, might have to work on drag and drop tools 6. Just another services company, billing is what matters 7. Spineless management and leaders (can't even stand for themselves)(will run away leaving you behind in difficult situations) 8. With good seniors gone what remain is a lot of great politicians 9. People are made to beg for project change

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