Thoughtworks reviews

4.2

87% would recommend to a friend

(3,390 total reviews)
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Mike Sutcliff

100% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Thoughtworks has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 3,390 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Thoughtworks employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologia da informação industry (3.6 stars).

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2.0
Apr 12, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

A great place to travel (alot). Drink and meet lots of folks from around the world. Attempt to agile inside of giant corporations which is like trying to box a glacier.

Cons

The talent is all gone. If you're looking to be mentored and grow an existing skillset, you might find yourself doing the teaching.

3.0
Jan 2, 2010
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Without a doubt, I learned at the fastest rate of my career while at TW. It's a place where you should simply drop your ego and treat everything as a educational opportunity. There are definitely others who share this approach, and if you can seek them out and avoid the excessively-opinionated people, it will change the way you think about technology. If you find a good project then milk it for all the knowledge you can, as the ratio appears to be about 3 bad (body-shopping etc) projects to 1 good one.

Cons

The humble people who like sharing knowledge are slowly but surely being swamped by inexperienced grads. This is directly attributable to the company's inexorable growth, which appears have reduced the hiring standards, and also appears to have no defined endpoint. All too often, passionate consultants are put into impossible situations on client sites, with TW management blithely assuming that they can affect change from the bottom up. On top of this many TW managers show no knowledge or interest in agile principles, and give you blank looks when you bring them up. Although the developers are probably some of the best in the business, unfortunately the same can't be said of the middle management (project managers and client principals), most of whom seem very generic

4.0
Dec 27, 2009

TW is a good place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

smart people; flexibility, lack of rigid hierarchy; training for new hires; global presence makes international experiences possible

Cons

can be lots of travel; no training available unless you're a new hire; employees overstretched and oversold at times

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