Slalom Reviews

Pros

- Culture - Pay - Work life balance

Cons

- Don't know of any

Pros

Amazing people, great work assignments

Cons

None. Just like everywhere else, one may find it difficult to get promoted if you don't want to be a people manager.

Pros

Culture: Slalom is known for its inclusive and collaborative work culture. It fosters a supportive environment where employees can thrive and feel valued. Opportunities for Growth: Slalom provides various opportunities for professional growth and development. They offer training programs, mentorship, and advancement opportunities to help employees enhance their skills and advance their careers. Client Portfolio: Slalom works with a diverse range of clients, including top companies across different industries. This provides employees with the opportunity to work on challenging and interesting projects and gain exposure to different business domains. Work-Life Balance: Slalom promotes work-life balance and understands the importance of personal well-being. They strive to create a flexible work environment that allows employees to maintain a healthy work-life integration. Innovation and Technology: Slalom emphasizes innovation and staying at the forefront of technology trends. Working at Slalom can provide opportunities to work with the latest technologies and contribute to innovative solutions for clients.

Cons

Project Assignments: Depending on the project assignments and client engagements, workloads and project durations can vary. Some projects may require longer hours or travel, which can impact work-life balance. Client Dependency: As a consulting firm, Slalom's work is often tied to client demands and projects. This may mean that employees have less control over the type of projects they work on and may need to adapt to changing client needs. Limited Industry Focus: Slalom's client portfolio spans across industries, which may limit the depth of expertise in a specific industry for some employees who prefer specialization.

Pros

People act nice. Many events with food and drinks.

Cons

The last few years have been very bad with high attritions and dirty work place politics. Its very common to see someone else take credit of all your work and be rewarded for it. The company is full of "leaders" who lack basic understanding of the work they deliver/sell and have 0 accountability but are there because they are friends with the right people and are white. The HR is completely helpless and policy is driven by practice MDs , they create exceptions as and when they want. The "leaders" lack any sense accountability and would hide behind random events to cover up their failures. In 2022 they tried to whitewash a lot of problems as "growing pains" however when you look at the numbers they were actually shrinking ! Now they've started attributing all the problems to the "economy" and "market conditions". When the times are good though it's all because of them , when they were accepting promotions every 6 months based on hardly one or two successful sales pitches , no one said that " the market is so hot or the economy is doing so well and selling in this market is a cake walk" It' was all because of their handwork and talent but when things go south it's because of external factors.

Pros

1. Relatively good work life balance (although this is changing with our local markets return to office policy) 2. Nice enough people 3. Good professional development

Cons

1. My local market is going from fully remote to 3-4 days in the office mandatory. A lot of my colleagues were hired in remotely and are panicking about what this means. Office is not set up to have this many people there (loud, cluttered, not enough desks) and is not a great fit for all people. 2. People are pretty homogeneous - a lot of drinking culture in my office, people make connections through events and parties. As a non-drinker, that makes it tough to engage with colleagues. 3. Benefits are really not great. 17 days of starting PTO sounds great, until you realize that there is 0 days of paid sick leave. Industry standard is 10 days of sick leave, so if you take that out of the PTO allowance you only have SEVEN days left. This is compounded by the return to office policy, as now workers have to choose between going into the office sick or taking one of their limited PTO days. There are no exceptions for working remote anymore and you must be in the office. I’m glad I got out.

Pros

Very selective and trying to do things right.

Cons

1. You have to be always wired as it comes with consulting, however it is contrary to what they claim. 2. My leader wants work to be done off hours but doesn’t let me put those hours as chargeable. I have heard the same thing from my colleagues. This is one way for people to get promoted, as in, have people work double hours and charge half. Engagement are a hit. 3. I have seen people getting multiple promotions within a short span of time. e.g consultant to Director in 4 years. Good for the person but not so good for the junior folks as a person with a title and no real life experience is leading them. 4. Now I am being asked to come to office to warm up chairs. 5. I live closer to downtown office, which is a train ride away and down own a car. I have had clients in suburbs and had to pay out of pocket for uber and commuter, and we were told we cant reimburse. 6. Annual goal setting is a joke and you are on your own to put your priorities and goals—seriously? 7. Some leaders lack basic social skills, including speaking and writing. Everybody should be made to write a paper/give writing sample as the interview process to weed out folks. 8. My practice leaders don’t have a standard methodology that they can apply(process, templates etc) and everything is on the fly. **Anybody can put two and two together and infer why Slalom is able to bid low

Pros

They really are an employee first org that cares for their team members! Despite losing a significant amount in Q1 2023 they were zero layoffs. Very rare in the consulting industry. A select few orgs can make that claim. Great work life balance. Certainly if you’re doing your part.

Cons

No real cons. They offer great training for those who wish to commit to learning. Only con is additional training not mandatory!

Pros

Supportive teams. There's a clear and easy path for growth and promotion. Work life balance is respected. Interesting and impactful growth.

Cons

I'm worried that our "culture" has infantilized our bench (which is ever growing) in that they don't have the tenacity nor 'scrappy' nature to compete in a shrinking market. Companies no longer are throwing cash, so I fear that "doing what's best for me" (a statement from a colleague) is not, and should not, be the motto going forward. Feedback is given but not implement. Most issues are solved by having a meeting and then never revisited until there's escalation. A common theme through corporate America, but the "nice" culture here encourages procrastination (i.e very non confrontational). Avoiding politically charged word choice (there's other comments referencing the 'wokeness' that I don't necessarily disagree with) I think we need to start looking at our ERGs through the lens of a company in hard economic times. It's frustrating seeing money shelled out for women's history month etc when we know, and have been communicated with, regarding curbing spending. No one wants to say anything for fear of being scolded, but we all have compassion fatigue. It's hard to support a new cause/event authentically especially paralleled to record inflation.

Pros

Some people can be nice.

Cons

- no work life balance (12+ hour days) - can be very unorganized & unstructured when it comes to undeveloped project management - micromanagement - long hours - unnecessary long & blast of communications at all hours, constantly glued to screen - lack of recognition, credit taken from higher ups - high attrition & turnover - bad benefits - weird culture of “we care about our employees” but also you better do it & bring in money to the company. - telling employees to smile especially women or minorities is toxic and rooted in historical racism & misogyny

Pros

Stable place to work, culture is still there, supports a healthy work life balance. Great benefits

Cons

I think Slalom is a really great place to go when you are coming in at a higher level, further along in your career and looking to settle down in a stable position. If you are new in your career, as much as they would like to grow their people, they are not in a position to give the time to new folks. There has been so much turn over in the last 3 years, unfortunately that took out a lot of the quality of people we did have and changed the culture at the company. Our core values are incredible but when push comes to shove, it's not people first - which I understand. All I'm saying is maybe don't work here as your first job.