Depends on Your Definition of Quality - Anonymous employee Slalom Employee Review

1.0
May 8, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

For people comfortable in the consulting milieu, it seems like a comfortable place to land.

Cons

Combination of sales-driven culture, lack of definition around quality (heavily process over outcome driven culture), number-driven culture...as consulting companies go, it's better than the big ones. Creativity can thrive in tiny niches as long as the engagement gives you cover. But they can't keep teams together and they can't break the addiction of being a body shop to the local big companies, and they end up taking orders instead of genuinely being the trusted partners their local companies need.

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This is John Tobin. I would love to talk to you live and understand more what you experienced. Please send me an email at johnt@slalom.com to have this discussion. Alternatively, if you have more feedback that you'd like to share anonymously please consider doing so here: http://slalom.ws/anonsurvey and/or via the annual employee survey.

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