Diversity at Thoughtworks

There is a very strong focus on diversity, inclusivity, and fair hiring practices, and processes are constantly being improved. Diversity within the company is already quite high, with many minorities represented more than in most companies.

This is one of their big focuses. They have paid transition leave for trans people, & try to keep everyone educated & encourage celebration. They are over 50% women/other non-men last I herd & this has been a big goal of thiers, they do a lot to make it a comfortable workplace for women.

This topic came up serval times during the interview process, i got the impression this is very important to them and during induction there was also a focus on this.

We have a company target within Australia to reach 50:50 between men and women and under represented gender minorities and we are close to reaching this goal. We are so diverse, it's clear to see how poorly represented minorities are at our clients. We have 20 days leave for Gender affirmation/transition in the workplace. Parental leave - primary carer gets 18 paid weeks leave and secondary carer gets 4 weeks paid leave

Maintains a great diverse hiring record, probably the best at this out of all software companies, focusing on social impact and issues at its very core.

The recruitment team actively seeks out such candidates, runs workshops to help get them interested/involved, and we have the First Nations Delivery Centre, which is designed to foster tech careers for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

They go through various programs for migrants, refugees, indigenous people ect to get interns & potential employees. I also found that as someone form a background of poverty, I wasn't judged or considered to be lacking due to my lack of experience/knowledge of salaries/income/finance.

The company does promote attracting people from well privileged backgrounds they have several programs working on improving this.

We are actively recruiting people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait island origins and have created an on-shore delivery centre to provide work for teams wholly composed of people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait island origins. We accept developers who are self taught and may have not gone to university.