Wasted over a year of my career with this firm - Consultant Slalom Employee Review

1.0
May 19, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The office space is nice.

Cons

This company preaches client love, but I did not see any of that during my tenure at Slalom. The things that leadership would say behind the clients' back disgusted me. Of course they need your help and your expertise - that's why you're there! It's inappropriate to make comments such as "their mindset is still in the stone ages" or "they have no idea what they're talking about". It's our responsibility to help them improve and elevate their current processes. I worked at my previous consulting firm for over 7 years and I had never encountered such vile leadership with such a superiority complex. In terms of career, I was never placed in the role which I was promised during the interview process. They will say they try their best to place people in the right roles but don't be fooled. Slalom has a tough time competing with the Big 4; therefore, they've made their mark in a small number of the same roles. Also, don't expect to have work-life balance. I live in the city and commuted 3.5 hours a day to Deerfield for months on end without a WFH option. I spoke with my people manager about this, but she was too passive and didn't want to make waves, hence I was stuck without options.

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Slalom Response
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This is John Tobin. I totally agree about your comments regarding our clients. We built Slalom based on a mutual respect with our clients and I remember seeing things like you describe in the consulting firms of the 90's. I will talk to the Chicago office about this, although I'm hopeful this was a fairly isolated incident or isolated individuals. Regarding WFH - this is now going to be pretty standard I think. And lastly, I only see us competing on an equal level with the larger consulting companies and often beating them especially on technology related projects - so I think you needed to give it more time there. If you would like to connect on anything you wrote above, don't hesitate to send me an email to schedule a time to talk - johnt@slalom.com. 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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