Yesterday, during one of the sessions at TWU, my friend Rajeev said a remarkable thing.

He said "At ThoughtWorks we don't have promotion. Only growth." Maybe it was words to that effect but that was his point.

My first reaction was "Eh?!". It sounded a very strange thing to say. But then I thought about it a bit more. In the year and a bit I've been with TW I can honestly say I've never heard the word promotion mentioned. Nobody talks about being "up for promotion", "getting promoted", "wanting a promotion" etc. But I have heard people talk about 'growth' - new roles as opportunities for growth, personally and proffesionally. It seems like a pretty fundamental part of TW culture in fact. Growth is something that you do for which the organisation can supply opportunities. It's something however that the company expects from you and pledges to try and assit. When it can't I guess people leave. All in all it's just another little indicator of why this is a remarkable place to work.