Once a Great Place to Work, Now a Shadow of Its Former Self - Anonymous employee Slalom Employee Review

3.0
Dec 6, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

• Excellent work-life balance supported by flexible and hybrid working options. • Competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package. • People at Slalom are deeply invested in the company’s success and the development of its people. • Client travel commitments align well with initial expectations - minimal. • Opportunities to work on impactful, cross-practice projects working with top-tier clients. • Centrally located, well-equipped offices offering complimentary snacks and beverages.

Cons

• Recent industry and economic challenges have gradually destroyed the ‘once-great’ company culture. • The core company values that once shaped hiring and performance processes are now irrelevant and rarely part of any conversation. • High attrition and on-going quiet firings, coupled with excessive bureaucracy and internal politics, has created a self-serving environment. • Global leadership and board-level updates have become increasingly vague over the past two years, often resembling 'word salad', providing limited confidence in strategic direction of travel. • Currently going through a re-org with late adoption of 'near-shoring' initiatives to enhance client billing, whilst providing no strategic clarity or detail to staff. • Limited promotions, lack of recognition for top performers, and stagnant wage growth (without inflation adjustments), as mentioned in other Glassdoor reviews. • Quarterly meetings, once a chance to connect and reset, have become mundane and negative. Little effort to celebrate any form of success.

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5.0
May 18, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Strong local client base, collaborative team culture, good learning opportunities, and career growth.

Cons

Need to adjust quickly to different clients, tools, and expectations.

2.0
Jul 6, 2026
Recommend
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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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