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 785 reviews)); "I have met a few great people here that I would want to continue a friendship with outside of work." ((in 632 reviews)); "Fun and good work culture." ((in 245 reviews)); "Great colleagues to learn from" ((in 172 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 253 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 98 reviews)); "No leadership on the ground." ((in 69 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.

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Thoughtworks reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(4,685 total reviews)

Mike Sutcliff

75% approve of CEO

55% 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 IT (Information Technology) industry (3.9 stars).

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5K reviews

1.0

Feb 2, 2021

Worst Company to work

Quality analyst

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Free Lunches, Agile Practices, Compensation

Cons

Thoughtworkers think that they're the best breed in the world. No one knows what they should be doing at work, but because of the so-called Feedback culture (genuine feedbacks don't exist), everyone talks their mind, mostly ingenuine things, backstab, gossip behind your etc. Laterals with more than 6 years (tech or PM kinds), don't even dream of joining ThoughtWorks unless you want to experience all the negative things in your career. Laterals with less than 6 years, especially Tech may he happy to join. Sick work culture, especially the oo-called veterans group up and bully laterals.

1.0

Sep 17, 2020

Worst company to work for

Applications developer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Nontech people (Recruitment team, People Champions, Tech ops) are really supportive.

Cons

1] The work-life balance is a total mess nowadays. 2] Not exciting n challenging work, you will ruin your career here, no progress at all. 3] Dumb colleagues 4] Manager / Lead can call you at any time, 5] It has changed from people-oriented to money oriented 6] Egoistic Capability leads / Iteration managers 7] No career growth

Thoughtworks Response

We're disappointed to read about your experience at ThoughtWorks and we're sorry that it wasn't more positive. We are working with the India leadership team to gather reviews such as yours and address the issues that challenge our employees. I'm sorry you didn't have a more positive experience working here, but we appreciate the honest feedback. Feedback is what allows our culture to grow and improve. And we are committed to frank and difficult yet honest conversations that are important in helping us to create an environment where all ThoughtWorkers can thrive. If you are happy to do so, I'd like to personally connect. Please feel free to reach out to me on shirly.evangelin@thoughtworks.com. Wishing you the best, Shirly

1.0

Jul 14, 2019

Horrible experience!

Applications developer consultant

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

No work pressure at all, chill life

Cons

1. Quality of projects that are undertaken is very low/bad (I was working on some data ingestion task in a graph db) 2. Doesn't matter what they say, chances are you'll be doing very trivial work 3. Horrible management! No effort is made to match employees' skills to the projects they work/consult on 4. No cutting edge work, hence, no learning 5. Compensation is very less, not according to industry standards.

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