Slalom reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(3,517 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 3,517 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
Jun 29, 2021
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Pros

Work-life balance is great mostly and colleagues are genuinely nice people

Cons

It's not real management consulting, it's a staffing shop, highly political and low transparency. The new career framework and title structure is misaligned to broader consulting industry and hard to navigate.

2.0
Jun 25, 2021
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Pros

- good story - great potential - private company

Cons

- 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

3.0
Apr 21, 2021
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Pros

Good benefits, Nice work culture. But unpredictable team or managers.

Cons

Very silo working model. I was with them for 1.5 years. I know my friends working there planning to leave ( not currently happy ). Some are stuck till they find better opportunity. The consulting model is very competitive. Not that many projects. So you will be on higher level pushed to take what comes or else will sit on bench for a while. When you are on bench then really lot of pressure to do pass certification or do any projects which do not interest you.

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