• Largely your satisfaction will be decided by where you spend most your time, which is probably on the client's site. Slalom is all about selling selling selling. They have some good and some very poor clients. I did not see them end relationships with poor clients, merely cycle in new consultants at the time of renewal, despite knowing the were not healthy clientele.
• The leadership shares in the profits and has been there quite a while. Good luck making it into that echelon. Would take you 3 years to join in the profit sharing. Very cliquish and not open to discussing industry best practices and other forward thinking initiatives unless they originated the discussions. Some territorial and poor performers who should be cleaned out but never will because they bought into the company. Relatively frat house and male dominated in this way.
• Few high ranking women in positions other than sales and HR.
• Behind creative solutions offered by more robust consultancies.
• People leading teams who have never worked on the ground in the fields they manage over. This leads them to selling things they didn't understand and making promises they can't support.
• Benefits are truly mediocre at best. Vacation is less than competitors and people have left for this reason alone when they have families.
• 2011 has seen a lot of attrition as many of us left for better pay, companies where our voices would be heard, or places where managers functioned as more than just sales people and staffers.
• Company divisions are very territorial and none of the leaders to my knowledge are interested in taking on cross departmental initiatives.
• There was really no sense of team in our department. Everyone was out for themselves, and that tone comes from higher up.
• Their exit interviews are really engineered so they don't have to hear any constructive criticism. Was pretty funny.
