Thoughtworks reviews

3.1

45% would recommend to a friend

(3,432 total reviews)
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56% approve of CEO

28% positive business outlook

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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1.0
Mar 20, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

1. Smart but biased people. 2. Open and bright office. 3. A lot of so-called "social justice" stuff going on. 4. Connect you with celebrities.

Cons

1. Not that much personal growth. 2. Very underpaid all the time. 3. Dogmatic and Brain-washed about agile. 4. Boring projects. Stressful delivery tasks. 5. A lot of timesheet and expenses stuff. 6. The human support isn't really supportive.

4.0
Mar 20, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of challenges. Lots of variety. Lots of opportunity to learn other disciplines and upskill. Interesting projects and client. Great diversity of people.

Cons

Lots of time away from home, which can be a good thing and a bad thing. The problem is you often don't get to choose, which can result in a lot of travel as well.

3.0
Mar 17, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Group of exceptionally skilled people - Lots of technical discussions outside the scope of the project - Opportunity to travel abroad - Great add-on to anyone's resume - There is a strong support for technical issues in internal wiki - Diverse environment, with lots of foreign people, making the environment very rich

Cons

- Worst salaries in the TechnoPUC campus, which are justified that the company provides a great environment and opportunities that no other company in the whole wide world can (really?) - Culture brainwash. I've been into it. If you are there, they (when I say "they", I mean from the HR staff to your project colleague) will make you believe that TW is the best company in the world and you are now part of an elite group. - Arrogant and pedant technical leads. At TW, there are those 5 grades: Graduated, Consultant, Senior Consultant, Lead Consultant and Principal Consultant. As soon as someone reaches the Lead Consultant level, comes together a big bag of arrogance. - Politically correct patrol in the company. Just like the movie Matrix, everyone at TW is a potential "agent" and controls your freedom of speech. If you disagree on the political view that the majority follows, you are going to be "educated" about the subject. That is the term used there. From that point, you have only three options: accept the brainwash and become part of it, pretend to accept and never, ever mention this or quit the company because you don't fit in the company's culture. - Brazilians are not allowed to ask for transfers to USA, Australia and Europe anymore. You can go there, but inside a project for a maximum of 9 months. The public statement behind this is that "Brazil should be a leader and promote social justice in the poor countries", which are India, China, Equador and the African countries. That is just plain stupid. An employee that wants to travel to "poor countries" has a completely different profile of an employee that wants to travel to "rich countries" and one thing should not interfere on another. - The employees that work on extra hours and on weekends get an extra recognition, which makes everybody trying to do the same, jeopardising the personal life. It is not cool to work long hours on Saturday and Sunday to put fire away to save a project. - Most of projects are dull and offer no challenges. Developers are happy to travel abroad and meet the client, but as soon as they return, they become depressed.

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