DON'T Believe the hype!!! terrible company - Consultant Slalom Employee Review

1.0
8 Nov 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- "smart" HR, they know how to market themselves on social media to sell the company to potential employees. This is not really a pro to the employees, but i gotta give it to the HR for relentless marketing of the company culture(which is in reality non existent) in social. - Some smart people in the company who stay in the company for very short time once they realize the reality

Cons

- terrible work culture. They sell false hope about work life balance, employee first, doing the right thing to the customers....all of this is a big fat lie! they hire people from big 4 with false promises. - NO travel- yeah right! they have a national team who travel almost 100% and the rest of the folks should be prepared to travel as soon as their current staff aug is over. - Work life balance: The company has literally ZERO experience in delivery. All they work on is 3-4 week strategy projects which fail miserably 90% of the time. If they do get lucky and land a delivery project then they hire a poor souls a "developer" and make them work like a donkey for 50-60hrsweek burn him out until he quits and then find new developer who fall for the same social marketing trap of the HR. The cycle continues. - No concept of quality, center of excellence or even assigning work based on a employees skillset: Are you a JAVA developer? No problem! they will make you work on a .NET development project with zero lead time to learn .NET. Do you have no idea about analytics? no problem! you will be a Tableau WIZ in 2 days on the job lol - Employee first culture: This is the biggest lie the company keeps preaching. If this is true why is everyone in the company only a few months old in the company? That is because attrition is crazy! Almost every new employee quits within first 6 months. -Quality of projects/clients: terrible projects! 90% of the work they do is staff aug....most of their clients and projects are local mom and pop stores, your corner caffe stores...they take up any work which comes their way.... Now lets talk about compensation and benefits: - Compensation "may" look on par with industry but look closer!!! - no 401k match for 1 year and 25% match after that.... - Healthcare costs are through the roof! over $500/month for medical/dental benefits for a family!!! i spend <$100 in my previous job for better health coverage! - PTO policy is a joke. Only 15 PTO/year with NO sick leaves! - There are literally no other benefits apart from these terrible benefits.

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Slalom Response
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This is John Tobin - I'm sorry you had this experience here at Slalom. Would love to hear the exact experience you had in the spirit of always trying to get better. Feel free to call me at (206) 374-4221 or send me an email at johnt@slalom.com. One comment I would say is that our "No Unwanted Travel Policy" is very real. Yes - members of the National team have signed up to be willing to travel in certain cases (like myself), but on any given week we may have 4% of our employees (out of ~3000) that are traveling. Another way to provide us feedback would be to email us via our confidential HR email HR@Slalom.com. Thanks

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