ThoughtWorks Interview Questions & Reviews in Chicago, IL Area
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Updated May 8, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Junior Consultant at ThoughtWorks
Posted May 8, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 in Chicago, IL (took 4 months)
After I applied online from their website, I didn't get any calls. After I called HR, it took a month for them to send me an email with a questionnaire. The questionnaire included different questions that test your creativity and values.Once I finished the questionnaire I received a email with a programming task including 3 problems. Once I completed a problem, and I sent it back I got a call from my recruiter and we had a long conversation about the company and my expectations. After this interview, I had a interview in their office in Chicago. During this interview, I took a wonderlic exam, logic exam, one values interview, pair programming interview, technical interview, and a group activity.
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Negotiation Details
I didn't do much of negotiations I accepted the offer because the benefits were amazing.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Applications Developer at ThoughtWorks
Posted Apr 3, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Chicago, IL (took 3 weeks)
First started by receiving a questionnaire by email. This involved many random questions, some which test your creativity. Then I was asked to do a programming assignment. After submitting that, I was contacted by a recruiter. There were situation type questions and behavioral questions. After that I was informed that I would be participating in an onsite interview.
The onsite interview lasted 2 days. The first day, I had a refactoring of the code I previously submitted. This involved 2 developers guiding me through my code and making it better. Next was a tour of the office followed by a wonderlic test and a logic flowchart test.
The second day involved an agile exercise which involved some role playing. Then I had two more interviews. The first interview was to go over some answers in the questionnaire. The last interview was more technical. Knowledge based questions about OOP, Java vs Python, and other programming concepts were asked as well as questions about various technical experiences.
I was really impressed by the company and the people there. I was excited to hear that I received an offer. Overall it was a great interview experience. I would say it was the best one I've had to date.
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Reason for Declining
I really wanted to work for this company, but I had another offer on the table that was too hard to pass up. It would be nice if our paths crossed in the future.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Software Developer at ThoughtWorks
Posted Feb 13, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Chicago, IL (took 2 days)
Brief tour of the Chicago office, followed by a Q/A session for the position of junior consultant. Then we had a 12 minute IQ test and a 60 minute logic exam.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Junior Consultant at ThoughtWorks
Posted Jan 28, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2010 in Chicago, IL (took 4+ weeks)
Multiple step process, with essays, 3 in person interviews, a management interview, logic, personality, and IQ test
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Negotiation Details
Very rigid salary bands
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Business Analyst at ThoughtWorks
Posted Dec 13, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Chicago, IL (took 2 months)
I first met ThoughtWorks at a University career fair. The next day, I was sent an email invitation to come to a group interview at the office later that very week. We were given a tour of the office, and then given the Wonderlic Test, followed by a logic test that they created to test how you are able to think like a computer and logically.
Two weeks later, I was sent a coding assignment to do. I responded by telling the recruiter that I was interested in a BA role, not developer, and I was instead sent a rather lengthy but interesting questionnaire to fill out.
A week after submitting that, I was given another assignment asking me to come up with a list of questions I would ask clients for whom I'm planning a vacation. Then I didn't hear anything for about 3 weeks.
Three weeks later, the recruiter scheduled a phone interview with me, after which she invited me to a final interview day (7 hours) at the office. At that interview, we started the day with an activity with the other candidates to learn how Agile works, and they observed us. After that, we had lunch with some employees. Then the candidates were split up, and gave presentations that we had been told to prepare to fake clients, with two TW observers (be prepared for curve balls in this presentation). Then I had an interview with the two observers. Then I had two 2:1 interviews, and one 1:1 interview with a VP.
I thought the day had gone really well, but the next week I was informed that I hadn't gotten the job. I did not get much feedback on why.
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Other Details
I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Software Developer at ThoughtWorks
Posted Dec 8, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Chicago, IL (took 4+ weeks)
Had to take a Wonderlic and a Logic test.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Business Analyst at ThoughtWorks
Posted Nov 22, 2011 — 3 of 3 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in Chicago, IL (took 1+ week)
The questionaire was a fun exercise to go through. Answering questions like "create a short story (100 words) with the title Red Hat", made it fun to show individualism. Environment seemed like a great place to work for.
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They want you to design and organize a dream vacation for them. Take no more than 1 hour to
write a list of all the questions you would need to ask them during the meeting in order to make
their dreams come true!
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Entry Level Hire at ThoughtWorks
Posted Nov 16, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Chicago, IL (took 3 days)
The office space is very nice and extremely casual. The staff seems nice. But they spring a logic test and another test on you towards the end of a group interview that ends up lasting 4-5 hours. They take notes while you do a logic group activity and while you individually take the test. Taking notes during the group task is understandable, but doing so during the test is a little odd.
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The interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Personality Test.
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Human Resources at ThoughtWorks
Posted Sep 20, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Chicago, IL (took a day)
I should of realized something was wrong when I walked in and the receptionist was wearing a football jersey and baseball cap! The phone screen went really well but they omitted to tell me that if you come in for a face to face interview you need to take an IQ Test. The IQ test was ridiculous, and the interview process was sloppy, they did not have an interview schedule and it seemed liked they called whoever was available at that moment into the interview. No one was prepared, they were struggling to come up with questions, and the recruiting team seemed very green (they also had me talking the person who schedules interviews??!!). I started to wonder if they took any of their own assessment tests. The other thing that bothered me is that I had brought in samples of my work and they did not even have the decency to take a minute to look at it. I seriously got the impression that ThoughtWorks thinks they are the best and everything else is inferior. Long story short, I must have not answered some questions incorrectly and they gave me the impression they were no longer interested. Needless to say, as soon as I walked out I sent them a thank you but no thank you email. Regardless of the outcome don't you want your candidate to speak about what a great experience the interview process was and maybe refer someone from your network?
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Personality Test.
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Human Resources Coordinator at ThoughtWorks
Posted Aug 22, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in Chicago, IL (took 3 weeks)
I met with the HR Manager and HR Generalist. They asked very general interview questions;however, I wasn't offered the position.
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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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