Consulting? - Consultant Slalom Employee Review

2.0
Feb 22, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent work life balance if you exclude the commute time (clients are in every suburb so if you live in the city you're looking at ~3 hours round trip per day)

Cons

The core of this company is technology and project management. Is that really consulting? I don't think it is. They keep talking about become a more strategic client partner, but I haven't seen it happen. At the end of the day they need to hit their revenue and utilization targets. What's the easiest work to sell? You guessed it...anything project management related or staff aug type work.

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Slalom Response
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This is John Tobin. I am seeing more and more strategic, business transformational projects across the company, but I admit we are strongest in our technology practices and offerings at this time. I would be happy to talk should you wish to elaborate more with what you are seeing and experiencing. Simply email me at johnt@slalom.com to set something up - I hope you do.

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