White Male Need Not Apply - Consultant Slalom Employee Review

1.0
Apr 3, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

So of the employees that have been at slalom for the 'good 'ol days' (that haven't left yet) are some of the best in the business.

Cons

If you are a white male you are pretty much screwed. We like to have 'road shows' where we fly in the executives and they will brag that we only exclusively interviewed women or minorities for a General Manager role. Or more recently the CEO had an entire slide that outlined the Dallas office was under performing due to us not having a perfect 50-50 split on women to male ratio. I work in a technology field - unfortunately Texas colleges do not graduate a 50-50 split in technology field. University of Texas has around a 15% women population in Computer Science. If we need to hire a 50 -50 split that means we are not looking for the best candidate (regardless of sex, religion, race). We are just trying to be an identity politics company. If I was a women I would be questioning if I actually got hired for my skill set or if they were just trying to hit a quote. Here is a crazy idea - lets hire the best and the brightest and not look at their physical appearance as a hiring factor.

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Slalom Response
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This is John Tobin. I'd be happy to talk to you more about this if you would like - simply email me at johnt@slalom.com to set up a time to speak. I'm very familiar with all our Inclusion and Diversity initiatives, so would be happy to talk to you about that too. I believe Slalom is focused on hiring the right people and we are looking to improve our diversity at Slalom. This is being done through a number of mechanisms, and the one that has been the most fruitful is to make sure our recruiting pipelines are diverse. I'm not sure which new office you are referring to where we only looked for females, but that is not the case - I can tell you this as I have helped in the process of hiring each of our leaders. We have emphasized having a diverse pipeline to choose from (men and women), and this has worked as we thought it would in hiring more women for those key roles. I would strongly encourage you to talk to your Dallas GM to get more of the exact data on who was hired (for instance in the first quarter) - I know he would be happy to have this conversation with you. Alternatively, if you’d like to share more feedback anonymously, please consider doing so via this survey: http://slalom.ws/anonsurvey.

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