I had been waiting for this for a long time. Experiencing their recruitment process made it clear that I will be working with good team of application developers. Getting through this raised my expectation from ThoughtWorks. Here are some of the goodies I earned at ThoughtWorks.
Office and Work Culture:
Their office was not similar to any other software company office. They have long dinning tables, where developers of same team sit together. No personal cabins for any employee. Most of the cabins have interesting names like start trek, sputnik.
Oh yeah! Every developer here gets his laptop with administrator rights. ThoughtWorks has got an open work culture. You have full freedom to install any software as long as you follow certain guidelines.
ThoughtWorks provides free food for its employees. Lots of fruit juices and healthy snacks are also provided.
A cell phone with Airtel connection is provided to all employees with its expenses paid by ThoughtWorks.
Support for Airtel Broadband connection is provided.
So even though ThoughtWorks has got an average salary structure, their perks and work culture compensates it.
For those who love writing code, want to learn more on Agile, open source contribution, get an opportunity to be a part of their product development team (ThoughtWorks Studios). Then this is the place to be. And more importantly ThoughtWorks is Hiring and looking for good programmers.
Recruitment process:
- Apply at their website. http://www.thoughtworks.com/work-for-us/apply-online.html
- Within 2 weeks time, you will get a call from the recruitment team. Basic questions like; how you came to know about ThoughtWorks. What is your expectation from ThoughtWorks? What tools have you worked an etc.
- Immediately after that, you are given a Coding test (answered via email). You got to write a program to solve a simple problem provided. The main objective of the exercise is to test your coding skills. How familiar you are with object oriented programming etc.
- If a Thoughtworker found your program suitable for the requirement. Then you will have an opportunity to come to our office.
- You will have a Logic Assessment test. A 1 hr with 12 questions.
- A 12 min aptitude test.
- Pair Programming test. A ThoughtWorker will sit with you on your coding test solution. A new set of requirements will be provided to you, which you will have to code with him. Idea is to know whether you can follow the pair programming practice followed in ThoughtWorks. And also to validate whether your coding exercise was genuine or not.
- 2 rounds of Technical Interview. Mainly concentrated on your projects that you have completed so far.
If (you clear in all)
Then you are in.
Else
Sorry, you have to wait for 6 months.
4 comments:
Draconian recruitment process? Why on earth would you call it that?
Hey Sidu...thanks for dropping by.
Draconian...mainly because it is following the same process globally through out,
no matter what shortage of developers...there is no change,
and is pretty strict on enforcing the process as it is...no exception(i hope so)
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Hello sir,
ThoughtWorks is coming to our college in a few days.
If you can just elaborate upon written test(logic assessment and apti) it will be really helpful.
Can we get a sample paper or something?
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