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 the long term goal, and gradual effect. Improving society for everyone is behind all of our actions.
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.
Leaders
Revolutionizing IT
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 1200 people across the globe. We've experienced huge and rapid change, but we have held fast to our aspirations to attract the world's best knowledge workers and our mission to shake up the bloated IT industry. Our values underpin our devotion to our customers' success and everything we do.
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, India and China and we work with clients from each location.