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?

78% of Thoughtworks employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Thoughtworks 4.1 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 (604) , Applications Developer (364) , Consultant (282) , Lead Consultant (260) , Software Developer (192) , Software Engineer (159) , Business Analyst (146) , Senior Software Engineer (138) , Consultant Developer (132) , Quality Analyst (87) , Principal Consultant (83) , Project Manager (79) , Application Developer (68) , 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 792 reviews)); "I have met a few great people here that I would want to continue a friendship with outside of work." ((in 622 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 136 reviews)); "It's a place where you receive constructive feedbacks and the best place for you to develop new skills;" ((in 112 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 262 reviews)); "Pay is low and internal ways of promotion are very biased depending on the leadership you are under" ((in 105 reviews)); "recent trend of frequent layoffs" ((in 92 reviews)); "No leadership on the ground." ((in 68 reviews)); "2. Leadership team is disastrous." ((in 17 reviews))

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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.

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Thoughtworks reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(4,669 total reviews)

Mike Sutcliff

76% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.4

Diversity & inclusion

4.2

Culture & values

4.1

Work/Life balance

3.9

Career opportunities

3.6

Senior management

3.6

Compensation and benefits

Thoughtworks has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,669 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

4.0

Mar 25, 2010

Not bad

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Good people. People are generally very competent and nice as well. Opportunity to travel. Reasonable salary. Opportunities that might not come up elsewhere. You get to see a lot of different projects.

Cons

Travel when you don't want to. Staffing on projects can seem quite arbitrary at times. A certain lack of organisation seems to be at work at times.

4.0

Feb 19, 2010

Good place to spend atleast a few years

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

* Lots of freedom to express opinions and challenge people/ processes * Good opportunity to work with really bright people * Professional yet informal work environment * Minimal hierarchy

Cons

* Absence of a well defined career/ growth path * Project rotation may not happen that easily or as frequently as some folks would like it to be

3.0

Jan 2, 2010

A great place but changing for the worse...

Senior consultant

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CEO approval

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

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