My Last day at Thoughtworks
December 15th marked my last day at /thoughtworks. I am grateful to have started my career here. This post is about me sharing some of my key takeaways and traits that I embraced in my 3+ years at /thoughtworks.
My key takeaways:
✨Practices — I learned how practices like TDD(Test Driven Development), Pair programming, Quality checks, etc. can lead to covering most of the scenarios in the development phase, collective ownership, fruitful interaction with colleagues while pairing. It also ensured productivity of the pair by complementing the other with appropriate feedback.
Practice is like a habit. Initially it might seem time-consuming and quite difficult to catch up. But once you start seeing results, it happens as a reflex. Practices tend to reduce a great amount of after-effects.
✨Feedback culture — Both giving and receiving feedback requires knowing your colleagues. Spending that time to retrospect with feedback, either being positive or constructive, improves each other. This creates a healthy work culture. There is no time of criticism when you receive and give feedback. But, one main aspect to remember is that feedback is a two-way street.
✨Diversity and Inclusion — Normalising and sensitizing conversations about people with disabilities, LGBTQ+, Women and underrepresented minorities gives a wide exposure to the industry. Open conversations about all of them in the workspace has greatly changed my ways of thinking.
✨Leadership — I saw many leaders not bosses. It inspired me to become one. A leader can be really influential. Its takes strenuous effort to become a leader but just a title to become a boss. I interacted with leaders who cultivated everyone in the team.
✨Making an impact beyond work — Work is just a part of the day. Besides that, I had spent time on a few community activities, conducting tech sessions for grad batches, office celebrations and many more.
✨Confidence — Being confident and voicing out are some important traits when it comes to team meetings. Sometimes you might be wrong, that’s 100 percent alright until you have the mindset to accept that you were wrong. But being quiet, that you will be wrong/what others think, will stop you from even starting the conversation.
I am really grateful to all my colleagues for a great start. Helping me out with all the questions that I had asked.
Thank you for a great farewell.
I hope our paths cross again!! 🤞
