Slalom reviews

Slalom often boasts about work-life balance and benefits. But in my six months in this organization, Slalom really needs to step up its PTO structure and medical benefits. If Slalom is truly a modern consulting firm that values its people, I would recommend shifting to a flat, upfront PTO structure where you allow employees when to plan their time off instead of having to accrue PTO. More importantly, 17 days of PTO is so low for a company that boasts a work-life balance. It should be 20 days at least. On top of that, half of the federal holidays aren’t given. For example, President’s Day, Juneteenth, and Day after Thanksgiving are not given as holidays. Instead, they offer a 2 day floating holiday which isn't enough. If you truly want to value your organization as an employee-first company you need to provide more time off, and a better holiday structure. On top of that, the medical benefits are so poor despite the options that are available, that the overall medical cost racks up. Overall very disappointing

A lot of politics. Internal politics matter more to career progression than they should. There are times when internal politics have negatively impacted client delivery, and this wasn't an isolated situation. Additionally, a new career framework was rolled out last year and despite promises that it would standardize criteria for promotion, it only added more politics and subjectivity into the mix. Managers are promoted when they don't have the actual skills to be good managers (provide consistent feedback, remember details about conversations with their people, advocate for their direct reports when appropriate). Most of the roles at the consultant level are staff aug roles. You have to fight to be staffed in roles that actually align with your career interests...and there aren't that many to go around because of the type of work that is sold. NB: this is practice-dependent, but was the case for my practice. Slalom pays a lot of lip service to diversity and inclusion, but the reality is there are very few non-white, non-male senior leaders across the company - and especially in my market. Compensation for non-technical roles lags behind some other consulting firms and definitely lags behind equivalent industry jobs. Benefits are average at best and 401k matching is comparatively pretty low.