Thoughtworks reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(4,693 total reviews)
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Mike Sutcliff

75% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

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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3.0
Mar 26, 2018
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Pros

Good brand recognition in the industry Chance to learn new languages People who haven't worked in agile, will get good exposure to agile principles here You learn to provide gyan even if you know nothing (TW special skill, a few old timers are surviving on this) Benefit - unlimited sick leave is awesome, I know a few guys who took more than a month off on sick leave and the management supported them. Salary is good among service based companies

Cons

Most of the people here, who have been around for more than ~3-4 years or more, in general believe that the laterals: 1. Don't know agile (they really don't know that almost every company is working on and selling agile) 2. Don't understand/follow good programming principles 3. Spoiling the culture of company In short, this is not a good company to join for laterals. The laterals are tested and pressurized by the old timers (well, there are a handful of good old timers as well but they don't speak up much against this). Most of the good old-timers techies have already left the company, most of the remaining lot of old-timers are ordinary and a few are not good technically and that's why these few run a propaganda against the lateral (in-spite of them being lateral as-well). There is a lot of politics inside. Every single lateral I've talked to has fall down to their marketing gimmicks and are looking for change, some have already. It's not that the top management doesn't know this, the leaders have spoken openly about this on different platforms but somehow this is still flourishing. _______________________ Poor work life balance on a few projects, people on few projects are expected to even work on weekends regularly. _______________________ I find it weird that a lot of internal sessions and interviews are organized on weekends and there is no monetary benefit for interviews. _______________________ This company offers nothing for introverts, you must know how to sell yourself. Some big mouthed people may bully you otherwise.

2.0
Dec 26, 2017

Mixed feelings

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Pros

Great bunch of talented people to work with, who are more of friends than colleagues Lot of learning and interesting projects Global exposure ThoughtWorks brand name

Cons

One bad apple spoils the whole bunch. Clueless and ineffective leader: no clarity of where we are going, lack people skill, ineffective communicator, doubts on client facing and sales skills, no presentation skills, not valued by people, not transparent - a non existent role for two years. People don't speak up because the leader isn't approachable either. An antithesis to everything we stand for at ThoughtWorks.

2.0
Aug 28, 2016
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Pros

I have been working as a full-time developer for nearly 4 years now. Any company will change during that long a time and ThoughtWorks India has changed as well. First of, its a great place for a fresher or less experienced (less than 4 years) folks hands-down. Lots to learn and lots to gain towards a greater career. We have changed organizationally in terms of global structure as well as the India organizational structure and this shift in leadership almost every year does bring with it the question of - who's vision are we driving towards? If its a collective vision, then, in my opinion, its not a long-term vision. In terms of development work, the projects that I see around are fairly good in terms of tech-stack as well as in terms of different domains. But most of them are majority maintenance-like and very few new projects are coming on board, which means not a lot of new technical and business challenges. This directly affects the growth of every technical and non-technical employee. Stagnation is not far away, ever.

Cons

From my point of view, lots of good people have left already or are planning to leave in the near future. I am not surprised by it - the lack of challenging work and work environment is a limiting factor and everyone wants to grow - not just financially but also in their role through being faced with new challenges. Leadership is almost silent, if not absent. There are interactions but only far and few and changing leadership styles/structures adds to this confusion even more. At the end of the day, the company is becoming similar to any other Indian IT consultancy firm (TCS, Infosys, Wipro...) and the differentiating factor is slowly becoming a blur because such differentiation is reflected in an organization's culture and not just in the hourly billing rate that they charge.

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