In addition to being pioneers in the use of Agile for offshore software development, ThoughtWorks’ people, our primary asset, are a handpicked bunch of highly motivated teammates who thrive on solving your toughest problems.
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We're Redefining Offshore Software Development
Our approach – Offshore Agile - uses highly innovative practices that maximize communication, collaboration and transparency. Offshore Agile mitigates the traditional risks of offshoring and we deliver exactly what your business demands, as fast as possible. Industry analysts have attested to ThoughtWorks’ application of Agile model best practices to offshore software development.
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Rigorous Hiring: Approximately 1 out of every 150 resumes
Our people are our greatest asset. ThoughtWorkers are key to delivering mission critical, technically complex software to our clients. We hire talented, motivated professionals who take pride in solving the most challenging and complex business problems.
For example, each developer candidate goes through phone screens, proprietary logic tests, coding problem sessions, pairing sessions, multiple interviews and reference checks before being considered for a final offer. Our offshore attrition rates are amongst the lowest in the industry, and our people are renowned authors, open source contributors and speakers at industry conferences. -
Focus on Quality
Best practices such as test automation, test-driven development, continuous integration and pairing ensure that we deliver well tested, production ready software. ThoughtWorks Studios offers Cruise™, an enterprise continuous integration tool and Twist™, the next generation automated testing solution.
- WHITE is a .NET test automation tool built by Vivek Singh. One of the top 6 Open Source projects on codeplex in 2008, by view count
- Ketan Padagoenkar's SWTBot is an open-source Java based UI/functional testing tool for testing SWT and Eclipse based applications.
- Vivek Prahlad's Frankenstein is a Functional Testing tool for Swing applications. Frankenstein's focus is on readable, simple, fast functional tests that can be shared and run by everyone on a team.
- Jeff Xiong, Huang Liang and Pengchao Wang have contributed to Selenium, a suite of tools to automate web application testing across multiple platforms.
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Open Communication, Lateral Thinking, Complete Transparency
We’re not afraid to speak our minds, and openness is part of our culture. You won’t find our people working in silos. Instead of cubicles, our teams join together around a dining table so information sharing happens as a matter of course. Our clients benefit from the lateral thinking this encourages. Card walls provide complete visibility as to work in progress.
