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      Great company within the consulting model - Anonymous employee Slalom Employee Review

      4.0
      Sep 29, 2016
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      1. Work life balance 2. Very smart and experienced professionals 3. Annual company retreat 4. FaceTime with leadership. Within a practice area it's relatively flat so it's very common for the most junior consultant to be transparent with the director or MD 5. Leadership actually listens to the feedback that you provide and most of the time will only staff you on a project that you agree to be on 6. Much less bureaucratic than the big four 7. Cell phone and transit expenses subsidized. (It's a local consulting model!)

      Cons

      1. Staff aug projects - this is case by case but I believe leadership is fully aware and making efforts to move towards true consulting work 2. PTO is improving but needs to be better since it includes any time off such as sick days and we have fewer holidays than the competition and even many of our clients 3. Deals with the same problems as our big 4 competitors that can lead to a negative stigma of companies hiring consultants. For example, having an office wide focus on increasing and measuring utilization and placing utilization targets, hence creating a vested interest for consultants to bill more hours. Perhaps the right answer to increasing utilization is restructuring how we sell work, or finding the appropriate work to sell, rather than asking consultants to "work" (Bill) more hours

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      Slalom Response
      9y
      This is John Tobin. Thanks for your review. I like your suggestions in looking for and selling the type of work that we want - and this will help our consultants have the right number of billable hours. I think our consultants are often in the best position to help us realize what those opportunities at a given client and it's this type of feedback the leaders / sellers of the office need to hear - so I'm hoping you share these thoughts with your local leaders. It's a great point about diversifying our office wide events and I hope you raise your hand to help impact those events - admittedly, I think we need those reminders to get others to organize them and make them as inclusive as possible. Also, feel free to contact me and schedule a time to chat about any of this - johnt@slalom.com. If you have more feedback that you'd like to share anonymously, please complete this short survey at any time: http://slalom.ws/anonsurvey. Thanks.

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      Pros

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      Cons

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      2.0
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