Slalom reviews

3.5

53% would recommend to a friend

(3,512 total reviews)
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Brad Jackson

47% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Slalom has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,512 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Slalom employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
May 12, 2012
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Pros

In general they leave you alone to do your work - as long as it is going OK and all is well with the clients. There is more flexibility than with many companies on dealing with life balance issues.

Cons

They hype as this simply awesome place to work but it is just a big smokescreen effort to attract talent. They are much more body shop than they are willing to admit, not a true "consultancy" as they pretend to both clients and candidates for employment. Like all employers, they will throw you under the bus in a heart beat when you are vulnerable and not making them adequate margins, so don't get all into some warm fuzzy delusion that they are any different. The middle management is also very inexperienced and immature in the way they run the business. Not real pros. Understand that you are entering an environment that is on a continuous sales cycle. Delivery of client services is always secondary to scoring the next deal.

4.0
Apr 12, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

I have been with Slalom for about a month and a half, so keep that in mind. I have not gone through a full year where I see how the year end review process works, etc. I will make sure to update this review when the time comes. However, I am very happy so far. I came from a Big 4 firm and the environment is totally different. Everyone is very friendly, there isn't the backstabbing that you see at big firms, and the environment is very entrepreneurial.

Cons

Major con would be the lack of infrastructure around policies, learning, development, etc. However, that is to be expected with a small firm and the Dallas office is currently working on building out an infrastrucutre in the Business Consulting organization, which is a great positive! Benefits aren't quite as good as Big 4 firms and time off is only 3 total weeks of PTO. Since it's all lumped into one (which I like because I don't get sick often), it would be nice to have an additional week.

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