Surprise! We found you.

Well Hello World!!

Until yesterday I was assuming that I was always talking to myself in this blog. Who would believe that out of the millions of blogs, there would be some traffic here (even if it was one or two people).

All I had to do was create a post with the word "ThoughtWorks" and add it into the tags and I was found out. This is not my real name, it was an alias when i started this experiment (blogging) in Feb.

I called my contact at ThoughtWorks 2 days after creating the new post to chat about other matters and I was asked about this blog, my blog ID etc. I was completely surprised (shocked) that it was found and traced to me. Apparently they read the posts and put 2 and 2 together.

All I could say was "WOW! That was fast and very impressive".

Even though it was flattering that someone has finally read these posts, it was actually very embarrassing, the earlier posts were plain stupid!. This would be the most embarrassing moment for me at ThoughtWorks (But technically I have not yet joined them).

I was even advised to use my actual name when I blog. I'm not sure. What say?

Offer@ ThoughtWorks. Finally!

Finally! I recently proved to myself (again) that i do have at least a dormant Brain. After nearly 3 months of uncertainty, confusion and whatever, my job search has finally yielded something. I now have a very decent offer from ThoughtWorks.

But its very frustrating trying to convince people its a great place to work, maybe next to even Google. How many companies put their employee profiles on their Corporate website?

Here are couple of good links about the company

Roy's social experiment
http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/RoysSocialExperiment.html
First Month at ThoughtWorks
http://ca.rroll.net/2007/03/19/first-month-at-thoughtworks/
Rotation
http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/Rotation.html
Thought blogs
http://blogs.thoughtworks.com/

The place has a very unique work culture and the interview process was very interesting and actually fun. I had to go though 6 hours of discussions (6 rounds) and 2 written tests. The most surprising element was there were absolutely no cubicles, just long tables and flat monitors on these tables. People have been working like this in Thoughtworks.

This is what i felt and i told these guys in the interview when i was asked - Why do you want to change to Thoughtworks?

When I started my job search 2 months back, I was searching for something and I
didn't really know what.. (maybe old passions?). But then I came to Thoughtworks and started my
interviews, it slowly dawned on me that this was exactly the kind of place
where I fit!.

The whole IT industry is going in one way and Thoughtworks tries to do something exactly opposite. I like that!!