Good culture - Consultant Slalom Employee Review

3.0
13 Apr 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Good salary - Smart people - Great education opportunities, both internal and external - Nice perks - Good culture, helpful people and value continuous learning - They give you good equipment and will pay for tools you need for your job - Monthly one-on-one meetings for career development with your manager

Cons

- They pit different practices against each other and in some cases they sell consultants from a practice based on who has the most influence at the local Slalom office and not which practice is the best fit for the client - They have high consulting rates compared to many similar consulting companies which often means you may not get to work on projects that align with your career development plans - Generalists are highly preferred over specialists and often you will not get enough time to ramp up on a technology that the project will use before the project starts - Scrum is the only agile framework they want to use instead of tweaking/experimenting what will work best for a client - Higher percentage of non-billable employees than I've encountered at other consulting companies. In particular, they have an unusually high number of people involved in the sales process / client relationships - At the local office, they hired so many from Accenture that the culture started shifting towards being more like Accenture than Slalom

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Slalom Response
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This is John Tobin. I will share with the Dallas leadership team as I think the feedback that you are feeling that different practices are not working well together is something I would like to particularly make sure we address. If there are other specific things you would like to share with me live, simply email me at johnt@slalom.com to set up a time to chat. Alternatively, if there's more you’d like to share anonymously, please consider doing so via this survey: http://slalom.ws/anonsurvey.

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