Our Mission
At ThoughtWorks we believe in software’s liberating capacity for society, attacking the most pressing problems of our time: social and economic inequality, the environment, energy, health care, participatory democracy, increasing the effectiveness of economic activity, reducing drudgery as well as ushering in the as yet undiscovered. We believe people yearn to belong to socially conscious and responsible businesses.
ThoughtWorks’ mission is to better humanity through software and to be a role model for the new 21st century socially responsible company.
ThoughtWorks marshals the most capable and driven people to:
- Run a sustainable business
- Revolutionize IT; champion software excellence
- Advocate passionately for social and economic justice.
Our cultural characteristics and imperatives
- Do the right thing
- Attitude, aptitude and integrity
- Service to others and society over self
- Solidarity over charity
- Serve holistic goals over achieving targets
- Personal and organizational transparency
- Curiosity, creativity and passion
- Fail fast and publish our mistakes
- Intolerant of intolerance
- No jerks
- High values alignment, loosely coupled.
Working at ThoughtWorks means a commitment to all of these. If you want to be a part of something amazing, and are nodding your head in agreement with these values and imperatives, then why not join us .
ThoughtWorks' three pillars
Martin's take on our mission
How does ThoughtWorks' Chief Scientist and luminary Martin Fowler describes the 'three pillar' model.
Revolutionizing IT
Revolutionizing IT
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RapidFTR - ThoughtWorks & NYU collaborate
RapidFTR
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