Slalom reviews

3.5

53% would recommend to a friend

(3,514 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 3,514 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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4K reviews
4.0
Nov 15, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing people who want each other to succeed. No travel! Great WLB. Can try out new industries/verticals.

Cons

Too nice - below average performers are allowed to stick around or even get promoted. There is a culture where conflict is avoided at all costs, constructive feedback is rare to avoid hurting anyones feelings. Local model creates unfair challenges to new markets as promotions are based on standard corporate metrics - easy to hit in mature markets, almost impossible in new markets. Immature training programs with an overemphasis on technology. People from industry are not given consulting training, especially presentation, communication skills and business foundations. Pay does not keep up with competitors, is a hard company to stay at for multiple years as pay increases lag inflation. Decentralized industry knowledge, experts and content, makes it impossible to compete with B4

2.0
Aug 24, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay, able to be remote

Cons

The quality of work is awful. Every project timeline is too short, you never get to know anyone, you're just constantly meeting people and making throwaway busywork. The people are extremely fake and just smile. There are boatloads of people just chasing titles and that aren't very talented. Every project says it's agile, but there is no process or consistency. The work is just so tiresome and monotonous and low quality, there's not a lot to get motivated about. From day 1, they beat this career ladder/me@slalom progression crap into you, but it's just annoying metrics and there is no real career progression

2.0
Aug 29, 2020

Mostly office politics and grandstanding

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Mostly average benefits - Typically no travelling - Some consultants/managers are great

Cons

- Lots of grandstanding, from work quality, to culture, and everything in between: one example, the CEO proclaimed "people over profits" during COVID, but maybe they forgot they let go of people (including recent new grads!) in the months prior - Surprisingly unwelcoming environment considering how often there's sessions on discrimination, mindsets, etc - Infighting between regional offices - Focus on client happiness over employee happiness (typical consulting) - Lots of internal pushing to get rated highly by polls (best place to work, etc)

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Slalom Response
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This is John Tobin. I really do not understand some of your comments, the first bullet especially. We have had no lay offs - despite many other consulting companies doing that. We delayed our new grad (analysts) to September, but they all started now and are doing amazing. I feel we are equally customer and employee focused. And finally we encourage people to fill out best places to work surveys, but we absolutely don't tell people how to rate us - we are just confident that most people really like it here at Slalom. I would encourage you to send me an email at johnt@lslalom.com to set up a time to talk about what you saw while here - I look forward to the conversation. Alternatively, if you’d like to share more feedback anonymously, please consider doing so via this survey: http://slalom.ws/anonsurvey.
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