It was not for me - Soldier of Fortune Slalom Employee Review

1.0
10 Apr 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Some really great people, and getting very good at cloud and SaaS implementation

Cons

- Leadership talk about being people focused but their actions do not much the words - There is a lot more “body shop” project or staff augmentation than they like to let on - Very little exposure to senior executives at clients, and therefore limited strategic work

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Slalom Response
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This is John Tobin. I probably know you and appreciate your review. We continue to be a work in progress and I very much still believe in the opportunity we have - as you say - to disrupt consulting. Feel free to drop me an email at johnt@slalom.com should you want to connect on this. Alternatively, if you’d like to share more feedback anonymously, please consider doing so via this survey: http://slalom.ws/anonsurvey. Best of luck to you.

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Historically a 'people-first' company, until recently. Valued their people and worked to create a great, inclusive, creative culture. Lots of training and learning opportunities as well as career growth opportunities. Great support system across the markets, re: resources, advice, mentoring. In regards to client work — Slalom perfected the true client collaboration and partnership. They work with the client on finding solutions together. I had a great experience there for over 10 years, until the most recent re-orgs and layoffs (Q1 2026).

Cons

Recent re-orgs and flattening of the company's capabilities and reporting structure has led to many communication issues across the company (local vs. national) and a new system that puts the onerous on the consultant to find their next project and avoid 'bench time' between projects, now competing with hundreds of other consultants across the US for the same role. The new system is less than a year old and was riddled with issues. These changes, and major communication issues have led to a large increase in attrition compounded by many rounds of layoffs.

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