much happier away from Slalom; zero sales culture here - Sales Slalom Employee Review

- leadership is ill equipped to lead with inspiration. saying things like "world domination" is immature, vague, and not inspiring. pandemic management was handled pretty well but I felt it was far too sensitive and not based in reality. i'm not interested in seeing leaders cry or conjure up some perception of sympathy on a monthly or quarterly basis. I would have preferred to understand the harsh realities of the situation for our business and have leadership rally everyone as a cohesive unit and team to confront our challenges. - lack of focus; spray and pray approach to BD with 300+ partners. Slalom is trying to be all things to all people without building truly deep and lasting relationships that endure - every office/market is in essence it's own entity so there is zero continuity of focus and messaging across markets. this is masked as "entrepreneurship" but it's really just a lack of proper management and leadership - middle management can be extraordinarily poor leading to churn of really good people. most thought provoking, challenger, type leaders that joined Slalom while I was there only last 18-24 months. some who lasted longer began looking for a new job after the initial two years. - churn of really good people occurs because middle managers feel threatened and tend not to listen to new and fresh perspectives. leaders feel like they have to have the answer so new thought can be quickly squashed by incompetent leadership - there is no sales organization in this company; zero sales culture; it's a go get a meeting and get out of the way approach. funny though, leadership wonders why they can't negotiate better deals, longer term projects, and higher rates with operational/delivery focused people leading the negotiations.....hummmmm