Slalom reviews

- Consultants have to network their way into the right clique for visibility - Managers are more likely to be selected for their staffing abilities than management skill - Experience gained while working for Slalom isn't valued nearly as much as doing the same work elsewhere - Limited growth opportunities unless you travel to other cities - Many Consultants are sold as staff augmentation, and it can be very difficult to get off of a boring project - Internal training is typically taught by whoever has the most energy, rather than someone with expertise - Managers seem to lack the vision or courage to disrupt the status quo - Internal marketing and branding feels like hollow PR when it doesn't match your own experience - Communication is organic chaos with no official tool or place to share information or ideas, so it's very easy to be forgotten and overlooked

If you are a white male you are pretty much screwed. We like to have 'road shows' where we fly in the executives and they will brag that we only exclusively interviewed women or minorities for a General Manager role. Or more recently the CEO had an entire slide that outlined the Dallas office was under performing due to us not having a perfect 50-50 split on women to male ratio. I work in a technology field - unfortunately Texas colleges do not graduate a 50-50 split in technology field. University of Texas has around a 15% women population in Computer Science. If we need to hire a 50 -50 split that means we are not looking for the best candidate (regardless of sex, religion, race). We are just trying to be an identity politics company. If I was a women I would be questioning if I actually got hired for my skill set or if they were just trying to hit a quote. Here is a crazy idea - lets hire the best and the brightest and not look at their physical appearance as a hiring factor.