THIRDWAVE Reviews

Thirdwave was a great small company to work at! It is intimate and you will need to be a scrappy individual willing to learn new skills which I always thought was exciting. - Great hours, typically you will work a 9-5 day - It was a small but diverse team! There can always be more women engineers though - The management is receptive to feedback and open communication - The office is an open floor plan with plenty of space and whiteboards for brainstorming - Thirdwave is centrally located(you are in the thick of river north).What is an especially good perk is you get a discount at the yoga studio in the building and the hair salon is pretty fabulous. I would encourage you to patron the establishments over lunch - There is usually good music playing depending on who's DJing - You are given the best electronic digs depending on if it is an Apple or a Linux machine you prefer - Sponsorships to conferences is available if you ask - Free subscription to pluralsight - One pair of cubs season tickets, if you are into that sort of thing - Beers on Fridays - Summer hours are an awesome perk you get out at 2:00 PM on Fridays [Memorial Day - Labor Day] - There is a Christmas and summer outing. They did cancel one summer outing while I worked there and that wasn’t ideal - You get exposure to some pretty cool non-profit projects so there is a feel good component to the work - Lunch and learns on Wednesday - free pizza!

The team at Thirdwave is a team that works together and grows together on a daily basis. The environment is supportive and open, it is challenging yet rewarding. The type of work done at Thirdwave will keep you on your toes and surely bring out the best in you. Working with a variety of clients and a variety of technologies gives a wide base for professional growth. With the boutique size of the team, you can truly affect the outcomes of projects. At Thirdwave, I have been able to take pride in the work that is delivered to the clients as it has impacted so many in positive ways. Thirdwave is and has always taken the steps necessary to balance new technologies vs. the stable ones that are sure to support its clients now and into the future. A DevOps mindset is alive and well at Thirdwave. With even such a small team, they are very mindful of the efforts everyone needs to put into their work and not "pass the buck". They have a full build automation toolchain as well as a full stack of infrastructure managed as code. It's pretty cool they take such pride in the security and long term maintenance of their client products like they do.