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      Senior Software Engineer - Senior Engineer Slalom Employee Review

      4.0
      Oct 24, 2016
      Senior engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great company culture, work-life balance. Scrum agile practiced regularly. The dev culture was low-key and relaxed without too many fires. Little overtime unless you really want to push for yourself. Work from home / remote work once a week is common, brown bags and happy hours. With consulting, whether you have fun at work depends a lot on landing the right project with the right team. Building a product for a small company with a lively team will make work much more fun than getting stuck on large boring healthcare mega-projects.

      Cons

      Consulting projects were getting boring and repetitive. More health care, more slow-moving clients, more meetings, more testing iterations and slower dev cycles. Much of the project excitement depends on the landing the right client and right team. Quite political and small, so if you have a bad day, word spreads quickly. The caveat with consulting is that it's best when all engineers are billable, which means that if you hit it out of the ballpark and complete a complex and challenging project with lots of visibility you may just end up on a boring test role for months until another billable client comes up.

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      Slalom Response
      9y
      Thank you for your detailed and thoughtful review. It is great to hear that you enjoyed your time within the Dev team at Slalom Chicago and the overall culture there. Your feedback regarding the downside of the consulting project cycle and the 'caveat of consulting' will be shared leadership as will your advice to avoid "becoming Accenture." If you have additional feedback that you'd like to share anonymously, please do so via this survey: http://slalom.ws/anonsurvey. Thank you for being with Slalom and best of luck in your future endeavors.

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      Pros

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      Cons

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      2.0
      Jul 6, 2026
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      Pros

      people are very kind and its a great network to then have for life

      Cons

      I had 5 managers in 4 years, 3 of which promised me a promotion which I never got I was strung along in a seperate global team for a year and a half and then when I finally was moved to that group they fired 80% of us it's now an up or out company and people are leaving faster than business is coming in, that's been happening for 2 yrs my mental health was so bad i had two burnouts in a single year my last manager emotionally abused me and made me feel like i was a terrible person. I left believing that was why I was fired until i chatted with another former employee of this manager work life balance WAS a thing and in the last two years it's now that consultants are also responsible for selling, travel is a non-negotiable but expectations for travel are not transparent and can impact your yearly review, straight up not enough work and then senior management will make you feel bad for it

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