Is Thoughtworks a good company to work for?

Thoughtworks has an overall rating of 3.1 out of 5, based on over 6,011 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months. 45% of employees would recommend working at Thoughtworks to a friend and 28% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Thoughtworks have been left by employees working as Software Developer , Applications Developer and Principal Consultant .

Does Thoughtworks pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Thoughtworks employees rate their compensation and benefits as 2.8 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?

45% of Thoughtworks employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Thoughtworks 3.4 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.2 for culture and values and 2.9 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Thoughtworks?

Senior Consultant (607) , Applications Developer (364) , Consultant (283) , Lead Consultant (261) , Software Developer (194) , Software Engineer (159) , Business Analyst (146) , Senior Software Engineer (142) , Consultant Developer (133) , 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 784 reviews)); "I have met a few great people here that I would want to continue a friendship with outside of work." ((in 620 reviews)); "Pure agile company and work life balance is good." ((in 393 reviews)); "Fun and good work culture." ((in 235 reviews)); "Good benefits &flexibility Diversity is there and lot of activities are there for employees development" ((in 131 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 254 reviews)); "Pay is low and internal ways of promotion are very biased depending on the leadership you are under" ((in 108 reviews)); "Too many layoffs these days." ((in 97 reviews)); "No leadership on the ground." ((in 71 reviews)); "2. Leadership team is disastrous." ((in 17 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.

What are the top reviewed Thoughtworks locations?

Chicago , New York , San Francisco , Dallas , Atlanta , Denver , Los Angeles , Austin , Boston , China , China , Lynchburg , Aldie , Brooklyn , Edmond , Washington , China Grove , Addison , Plano , Houston , San Antonio , Minneapolis , Indianapolis , Michigan City , Brazil , Solon , Columbus , Irvine , San Diego , Fremont

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Thoughtworks reviews

3.1

45% would recommend to a friend

(3,432 total reviews)

Mike Sutcliff

56% approve of CEO

28% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.5

Diversity & inclusion

3.4

Work/Life balance

3.2

Culture & values

2.9

Career opportunities

2.8

Compensation and benefits

2.4

Senior management

Thoughtworks has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 3,432 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 Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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3K reviews

5.0

Jun 11, 2014

Making the world a better place, At least the software development industry

Software developer

Recommend

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Pros

Why I love working here 1) Your colleagues are incredibly talented, extremely diverse(I mean it and be prepared for it) and lot of fun. 2) Everyone actually care about the quality of the code and improving software development process. You get to transform big software companies and make it agile and make programming fun for your client developers. 3) Travel (This is both pro and con, sometimes i love travelling) 4) It is actually a company with a conscience. Yes I know everyone says that, but here you actually get a chance to make world a better place, and sometimes stop bad people from making it a bad place.

Cons

Travel Some Clients can be boring, and unwilling to change. Well you can only do so much.

5.0

May 24, 2014

ThoughtWorks is lifetime experience

Qa consultant

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- Best culture in IT industry - Only company which does things in true Agile way. Unlike others who have their own version of agile - Full of learning opportunities - Support social causes - Contribution towards open source. Recently, continuous integration server 'GO' has been open sourced! - Great and intelligent people around you, nice community. - Ultimate care of employees. ThoughtWorkers are most important for thoughtworks, even more than client in some cases - lots of travel opportunity - freedom of speech. - Flat hierarchy - Free Food, juices, cold-drinks, parties. - Work from home. People here understand your problem and try to solve it

Cons

- Some people do nothing other than talking aloud about gyaan like best practices which never works in real projects. - People talking in conferences are valued more than those who calmly do their work. - Couple of new projects are the typical 'thoughtworks' way.

2.0

May 11, 2014

Not a place for experienced professionals

Senior applications developer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Office culture, technically sound team mates

Cons

I have never seen such an attrition before. Indian offices of thoughtworks are getting a big hit bec' of few serious issues. If you are an experienced professional, then you should make the resource manager, Project manager, business analyst, team lead, they guy who sits in the next table who has big voice etc., feel that you are talented. Your complete growth, onsite opportunities, good projects - depends on what they feel about you. Earlier the organization wasn't this judgmental. How can a resource manager who doesn't know neither technology nor you, can decide what you will be doing ? But they will take all the key decisions just by the magical discussions that they have with other so called key people who doesn't know what you are working on. The local politics is spoiling a good company. So many talented people doesn't get a good project that they deserve. So many just-talk-and-get what you want people keep getting the opportunities setting bad example for others to follow.

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