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?

79% of Thoughtworks employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Thoughtworks 4.2 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 (605) , Applications Developer (364) , Consultant (283) , Lead Consultant (260) , Software Developer (193) , Software Engineer (159) , Business Analyst (146) , Senior Software Engineer (141) , 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 798 reviews)); "I have met a few great people here that I would want to continue a friendship with outside of work." ((in 633 reviews)); "Pure agile company and work life balance is good." ((in 391 reviews)); "Fun and good work culture." ((in 240 reviews)); "Good benefits &flexibility Diversity is there and lot of activities are there for employees development" ((in 136 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 243 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 97 reviews)); "No leadership on the ground." ((in 66 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

79% would recommend to a friend

(4,685 total reviews)

Mike Sutcliff

76% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.4

Diversity & inclusion

4.2

Culture & values

4.2

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 4,685 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 Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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5K reviews

3.0

Jan 4, 2009

Think long and hard, If you want a life...

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The Perks, the travel, the networks and the people (other consultants) just rock - by far the best and smartest people that I have ever had the pleasure of working with.

Cons

It consumes your life, and eats into your personal time - in fact you don't have personal time left. I'd also need to agree with another couple of points in other posts, one about the inefficiences of HR and how it is sooo poorly managed. The other is about if you are not 'in' with senior management, forget it...

2.0

Jan 2, 2009

It used to be good.

Lead consultant

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

There are lots of smart technical people. Business and Project Managers are more like average though. The company behaves like a single global entity. There are no branches, there are only offices in different regions. Very nice office with free beverages, food, videogames and books. Most savvy people in software development know the company and that's good for your resume.

Cons

Likely to travel a lot and lose some money in the process and not everything will be expensed. HR is extremely ineffective. Resource Management process (allocation into projects) is just fire fighting. There is no plan and unless you're in good friends with senior management they don't know your skills or who you are. The office may be nice but you're always on client side. Managers are directly responsible for 100+ people and those people rely heavily on management for everything as they're on client side. Account management is fire fighting as well. Most good tech people are leaving and new hires are not filling the gap.

3.0

Dec 30, 2008

Roy's social experiment is an interesting place to work.

Principal consultant

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

You will work with smart people. ThoughtWorks' reputation makes it relatively easy to get conference and book proposals accepted. The company is very dedicated to improving the state of the art of software development. Work with people who have significant experience using agile processes in both the typical situations as well as those areas that other's know little about such as large (100+ developers) and distributed (across multiple continents) projects. You will have the opportunity to work internationally.

Cons

Regular travel to boring places. Very hard to be exceptional in this crowd. Low compensation. Company is barely financially viable. International experience is required to reach the higher positions in the organization.

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