No growth for internal employees unless you are a favorite or proficient in sycophancy - Anonymous employee Slalom Employee Review

2.0
Sep 29, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Learned tons, expanded network, worked mostly with smart people.

Cons

Work-life balance, favoritism, clique culture. In my experience as an internal employee, I witnessed that those who are proficient at stroking the ego of leadership or were chosen as a favorite by leadership are the ones who benefit from career growth. It is not based on skillset, but rather if your manager does not feel threatened by you. Managers I have come across will put their own growth ahead of yours, and you will not be allowed to grow before they do. Advice to prospective internal employees - if you have growth aspirations, especially interest in consulting, make sure your manager has googly eyes for you within the first year. If you do not see this in a short amount of time, you will not be allowed to reach your goals.

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This is John Tobin. I have said for many years of my professional life is I try to hire people that are smarter than me and allow them every opportunity to grow. We talk a lot about being vulnerable at Slalom and I would hope that our employees could be very open and provide this type of feedback to the people they report to. I appreciate you calling this out - if you want to share more about your specific experience, feel free to email me at johnt@slalom.com to schedule a time to chat. 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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