Thought-Twerk

Wow, look at this.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=thought-twerk

Let me copy the contents and paste for our viewers:

To thought-twerk is :

To rant on about how awesome ThoughtWorks is even if no one cares or is even listening.

Wow, she's hardly been in ThoughtWorks for 6 months and she's already thought-twerking a lot.

Well this talks a lot about the people who work at ThoughtWorks doesn't it?

Top Comment So Far For The Blog

Here is a counter blog posted for my first entry:
http://lovethoughtworks.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-hilarious-review-on-thoughtworks.html
You have to love this one. I found this posted by a user by the name - Fulre Tard

"Egocentricity is a funny thing. Egocentric people tend to berate anything that they don’t agree with, on par with Justin Bieber’s & Yo Yo Honey Singh’s singing and appearances. Because thats the closest arrow available in their quiver of internet garnered cliches. Of course this blog starts from proving me right and ends at a place, where my comments will seem like golden stupendous wisdom. 

Just because your abilities to lookup incomprehensible synonyms from urban dictionary surpasses your technical skills, does not mean that you are the alpha species that represents the whole blogosphere. A blog as moot as this one is as laughable as Miley cyrus’s dressing sense. 

Five minutes into reading it and you know it is going to be those rabbit holes which are richly abundant in the “I am just venting out” poop because I didn’t get hired. They make for a fun reading, but doesn’t mean that you will be awarded the booker prize for this year."

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"Just because your abilities to lookup incomprehensible synonyms from urban dictionary"
I wonder which set of words in my post scared the English out of Fulre Tard here. Perhaps it was the words especially and interview. Yeah many a days were spent on finding the synonyms for those.

"A blog as moot as this one is as laughable as Miley cyrus’s dressing sense." - oh my my. What a unique style of writing here. It reminds me of .. well me. The least one can do while writing a retort is to not copy the writing style, but hey, the person is making a statement here.

"Five minutes into reading it and you know it is going to be those rabbit holes which are richly abundant in the “I am just venting out” poop because I didn’t get hired"
Ding ding! Give Fulre Tard here 10 points! This is the exact reaction I expected to get at ThoughtWorks if I had bothered to give a regular feedback right after the interview. This Tard here is the precise reason I had to resort to a blog and use an elaborate method to get this feedback to ThoughtWorks. People like Fulre Tard here are so full of themselves and believe that ThoughtWorks is the road to nirvana. I'm glad Tard has been gracious enough to express his thoughts publicly. It just helps me expose their mind set and emphasize my points more.

We can keep tearing each other's posts endlessly providing entertainment to many. Try to take the feedback and fix the problem.

More detailed feedback here:
http://lovethoughtworks.blogspot.com/2014/07/response-to-people-looking-for-feedback.html

A Hilarious Review On A ThoughtWorks Interview

Now, every Ex-ThoughtWorks friend of mine warned me to not go the company for discussions. But I really needed to find out why they were all asking me not to go. They also requested me to not make fun of the interviewers on their faces.

The first round of discussion was with two people. One of them seemed ready for some kind of war, while the other sported an expression which would steal all the smiles away from Jim Carrey's face. I was already looking forward to the exciting opportunity of losing an entire form of expression - happiness.

I was there hoping to talk about some of the big data work that ThoughtWorks had proudly displayed on their website: http://www.thoughtworks.com/big-data-analytics

I was immediately told by them that Big Data is all bovine excretion and that there are more solutions available than problems to solve. I was also told that Thought Works was never planning to become a Big Data house. So I tried to ask why they mentioned it on the website but all I got in response is - we're digressing, and that we needed to get back to the interview. I wondered for a short bit if I was at the Times Now studio in one of their interviews.

We began discussing Java. In two minutes, that discussion turned into a one-sided rage against Java and how the frameworks that people-successfully-used-worldwide-across-millions-of-organizations was the biggest crime of the 21st century, second only to Justin Bieber's shirtlessness. In the 5th minute it was evident that neither of them had any depth in the said frameworks yet had an opinion of its evil monstrosity. They prided on it too. It was like watching Yo Yo Honey Singh expressing his pride over being from UK (in spite of being there for only 2 years). Not to mention the pride over his two Yo(s). It also reminded me of his depth of Rap music.

The two of them tag teamed and took down the various elements of java while all I was thinking was - Man! What is stopping these two from joining Oracle and fixing Java so it can become the most widely used programing platform today? (Apart from the fact that a taser would be used and they’d be removed from the building).

The next set of gentlemen were a fine example of how ThoughtWorks can have the exact replica in "pairs" for both looks and thoughts. Here again, one of them was so devoid of happiness that Pharrel Williams would stop singing his Happy Song. Neither of them wanted to hear anything related to my past experience. Again, both of them lacked depth about frameworks and voila, up came the framework bashing. It was amusing to see such hard opinions created over nothingness. It was all like the glory of watching Himesh Reshammiya express his opinions on the errors of film making.

At the end, I learnt what my Ex-ThoughtWorks friends were trying to explain. The culture revolved about how having an opinion was more important that having knowledge and this opinion is not even self-formed. I also understood why Yo Yo Honey Singh has the right to keep that ridiculous name and be proud of it. At this rate he could obtain a 3rd Yo.

On a serious note, the interview experience was nothing but disappointing. Technology is but a means to solve problems that customers face. There is no need for egotistic attacks during an interview. Companies need to start keeping a check on the attitude and arrogance of their employees, especially during interviews. The panel is the face of the company’s culture. The interviewers and the processes are also being judged by candidates to decide if they are going to like working in the company. Companies should ensure to keep out arrogance as they expand.

Interviewing is a skill on its own. It doesn't come to you one fine day like puberty. Most companies lose out on good people because it's done by random employees who are completely clueless about an effective interview process. It's time employees are trained on how to take interviews before they are allowed to. Candidates have to be assessed for skills that are inclined to what the company needs, not what every random interviewer needs.

Here is a follow up post based on people reaching out for more feedback:
http://lovethoughtworks.blogspot.com/2014/07/response-to-people-looking-for-feedback.html

Here is a comment to this blog that is worth reading:
http://lovethoughtworks.blogspot.in/2014/07/top-comment-so-far-for-blog.html

Check out the glassdoor entry:
http://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/ThoughtWorks-Senior-Software-Consultant-Interview-Questions-EI_IE38334.0,12_KO13,39.htm#empReview_4473726

An interesting phrase:
http://lovethoughtworks.blogspot.com/2014/08/thought-twerk.html