Thoughtworks culture: 10,000 and beyond
summary
Thoughtworks claims a 28‑year culture that produced concrete tools and practices: Selenium and CruiseControl and a microservices paper that become industry staples, a data mesh push, and the open‑source Cloud Carbon Footprint plus Green Software Foundation work. It reports 48 offices in 17 countries, a global grad intake hitting 50 percent women, ThoughtWorks University for onboarding, a JSS/Bahmni hospital system deployed in 400+ sites, zero pandemic pay cuts in 2020, and repeated awards and public listing as evidence the model scales.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:43What to expect
- 1:52What is culture
- 3:15Revolution
- 4:56Hiring
- 7:00Collaboration and cocreation
- 10:04Diversity and inclusion
- 12:45Autonomy mastery and purpose
- 14:25Learning capability building
- 17:31Leadership
- 20:06Sustainability
- 22:47Challenging status quo
- 24:22Fun at work
- 28:14Business flywheel
- 29:33Culture as a fulcrum
- 33:40Collective ownership
- 34:57Breakout session
