Thoughtworks
Thoughtworks’ Consultant Developer Virtual Experience
Australia, Online/remote
What is this?
Welcome to Thoughtworks’ Consultant Developer Virtual Experience.
Thoughtworks is a global software consultancy helping solve our client’s toughest problems with technology. This virtual work experience will introduce you to the foundations of consulting and agile software delivery, and will challenge you to think about the important role technology plays in society.
Why should you do this?
This Virtual Experience Program is self-paced and should take only 4 to 5 hours to complete.
This Virtual Experience Program is free for all students.
When you complete the Virtual Experience Program, you’ll earn a digital badge and certificate you can share on Linkedin and include on your resume.
Throughout the program, you’ll learn and develop deep insights into what it is actually like to work as a consultant developer at Thoughtworks. Apply your engineering knowledge to a real-world problem & gain practical experience and knowledge to draw upon in interviews.
What you will do?
Module 1: Consulting (30 minutes - 1 hour)
In this module, you will describe what a consultant is and what their job encompasses
Module 2: Agile Software Delivery (30 minutes - 1 hour)
Discover what makes agile software delivery important for quickly delivering quality solutions to our clients
Module 3: Social Change (30 minutes - 1 hour)
In this module, you will learn why and how we advocate for an equitable tech future.
Module 4: Diversity & Inclusion (30 minutes - 1 hour)
In this module, you will be asked to challenge your perceptions and unconscious biases.
Module 5: Developer Practices (30 minutes - 1 hour)
Complete this module to discover some of the core developer practices used to help us maintain our standards.
Ready to get started?
Click Register to begin
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen +more
- IT & Computer Science +more
Reviews
Not on a project at the moment, so focusing on personal development, and helping out with various tasks. (Would prefer to be on a project.)
It varies, sometimes I am on a client, which involves me working with a team of other thoughtworkers or client staff to complete work for the project. We try to use test driven development as much as possible & all the ussual agile practices. When not on client I'm on 'the beach', which is a space to update your info/goals/admin, learn (self driven, or via courses / books), help the sales team or with a client pitch, help with interviews, some low priority beach projects & anything else that pops up.
When you are staffed on a project with a client, things are generally good. Though, over work is common as you almost have two roles. 1 - your client role, and 2 - your ThoughtWorks role. Sometimes managing 2 sets of calendars, and 2 sets of emails gets a bit stressful.
About the employer
Thoughtworks
4.6
1,000 - 50,000 employees
Technology
Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that integrates strategy, design and engineering to drive digital innovation.
Pros and cons of working at Thoughtworks
Pros
Awesome culture, everyone is super friendly and understanding.
Diverse culture
They look out for my experience with them from training to working, and they work hard to keep a good culture at work.
The people are amazing. Very friendly and smart, very open to feedback, and always willing to help.
They seem to really treat employees as people, they will work with you if you're in need of support rather than punishing you. Also they do some work pro-bono / discounted for social justice projects, so it feels less like a heartless corporation & can really help add meaning to your work. They have Transition leave for trans people & understand the reality of the medical necessity of certain procedures & ensure you have time to recover if you do take paid leave for it.
Caring and supportive culture. Everyone is willing to share and help out.
Cons
As the nature of the work is consulting, uncertainty in terms of what/where you will be working.
Teams tend to be siloed within client accounts and the remote nature of work in Australia has made it more difficult to build relationships and collaborate across teams.
Starting during a pandemic and not being able to meet fellow grads and colleagues in person.
In between projects - when you are waiting to be staffed. During that time, there is a lack of structure and you generally get pulled in to do internal work that may not align with what you want to learn.
The flat structure can make it a little confusing knowing who to talk to. Some of the clients are hard to work with, or work in industries I wouldn't consider the most moral like Banking or Oil, but those are minimal & you can opt-out for working with them.