About us
ThoughtWorks is not your typical company. Talented, driven and principled people who are passionate about software, brought together because they want to do something amazing.
Amazing work for our clients is the front line, revolutionizing the way the industry works is a gradual effect, improving society through software is our long term goal.
Leaders
Our history
We hire people who are brave and entrepreneurial. We always want to explore the boundaries of technology and business - this has created a rich history of cool stuff.
Revolutionizing IT > Improving Society
The IT Industry has a terrible reputation, and it deserves it. Our commitment to changing the industry permeates every project we touch and far beyond that - we are working on ways technology can positively impact society and community for future generations.
ThoughtWorks was founded by Roy Singham in a Chicago basement in 1993. Roy's formula for success from the start was "Attitude, Aptitude, and Integrity" – he built ThoughtWorks upon the firm belief that communities of talented, driven, and principled people could move mountains.
Today we employ over 1700 people across the globe. With a reputation as leaders and experts in the industry, we’ve become a destination employer for like-minded people with a passion to improve how businesses design, build and evolve software. We are very selective, hiring only 1 of every 100 aspirants (1 of 200 in some areas). This means we have equally capable people wherever we are located.
Whether we're building a new custom system for a client, fixing a project that's tied up in knots, or helping to make a software development organization more productive, ThoughtWorks delivers.
Our customers start seeing benefits in weeks, not months or years, a radical change for some clients and partners caught up in the inertia of working as they've always worked.
Software development with ThoughtWorks feels and looks different: it is fast, evolutionary, even fun. There are no secrets – you can walk into a ThoughtWorks project room and see exactly where we are at a single glance. We take good ideas – best practices like collaboration, feedback, transparency, and testing – and we build them into the fabric of the way we work. We've spent years, and many early mistakes, building up the set of ThoughtWorks’ core capabilities - reusable approaches that we believe to be world class. Of course, every problem is different, and our commitment to satisfying our clients far outstrips any affinity to a set of practices.
We are based in the United States, UK, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India and China and we work with clients from each location.