Mostly office politics and grandstanding - Anonymous employee Slalom Employee Review

2.0
29 Aug 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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