Avoid Sales roles - Sales Executive Slalom Employee Review

1.0
17 Apr 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

People are generally great and it seemed like a decent place to work if you're a Consultant.

Cons

Still very localized in terms of sales team structure, which means you have local market leaders (former Consultants) running the sales teams. Very little direction from corporate, other than an awful company-wide sales comp plan. Plan was based on billed revenue and local leadership made the numbers high enough to where quarterly bonuses were virtually impossible, since you aren't paid any % unless you hit the astronomical goal. Zero ramp-up period when joining so you're expected to sell $500-750k+ in net-new billed revenue in each Quarter, with no existing book of business and very few existing MSA's. Average deal size across Slalom is $300k. Sales is used as a marketing, cold calling, and "who do you know" engine before they move on to a firm that appreciates the role.

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5.0
29 Oct 2025
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Pros

Great culture, diversity, modern office

Cons

Bench policy, utilization goal, evaluation of core values for EOY bonus are subjective

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4.0
3 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good company to work for, treat their employees well. Management upholds their values and company culture is great.

Cons

The only thing I would say is a con is you're dealing with clients and sometimes they are unreasonable. If there's area for improvement, management could back up their team members a bit more when client is being difficult but it's not easy all the time. Other than that, management has always been great from my experience.

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