Slalom

4.0

18 Aug 2015

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Pros

Let me summarize the Slalom for you: The work culture in Slalom is absolutely fantastic. The Leadership in New York office is amazing. The people are mostly big 4 retired road warriors. We have seen the war and now it is like a good fresh air, with good people. Everybody here is smart and filtered 360 degrees to fit the culture. 100% local. Haven't travelled at all since I joined. You see a lot of smiling local people in the office. The work itself varies a lot. It is not "strategic". Work is just work. It is mostly staff augmentation. You go into a client side and do whatever comes up. If you are a Manager or Senior in big4 don't expect to have a team, manage others etc.. It is basically a pay check in a laid back environment and you mostly work solo. Most of the folks here are around their late 20s or early 30s either with a new born kid, newly married or wants to have their own start up but didn't find the time in big 4. Slalom is for these type of people. If you are a good consultant, after very careful elimination you are in. You go to a client, do whatever, figure out stuff (mostly staff augmentation), get your pay check. You come home at a reasonable time and do your own thing either family, dating, sports, your own company work etc... For me Slalom is all about People and Culture. Those 2 are amazing. The work you do, the benefits and the rest of the stuff are all average. But, I am assuming Slalom is probably better than what you are doing right now especially if you are a big4 Manager or something like that and you think you are in "partner" track. Lastly, no mandatory firm development activity, no mandatory anything. You don't have to participate in anything unless you want to. Just keep your client happy, enter your time and go home is very well an option.

Cons

Please keep in mind that I am happy at Slalom but I want to make sure everything is out in the open. - If you are an H1B holder immigrant and you want to get a greencard forget Slalom. They are doing H1B transfer but they don't sponsor greencard. So, If you are an international college student, H1B owner or any other type of immigrant and want to be sponsored via your company don't consider Slalom.They will probably keep you around with your H1B but there is no light at the end of the tunnel. Don't waste your precious H1B time at Slalom. I feel you fellow immigrants. I know how important it is for you and your families. - Benefits package definitely needs improvement. It is only 15 days of PTO. Parental leave is bad. I keep hearing some improvement will happen soon but nothing happened about it yet since I joined. - If you care about your career progression Slalom might not be a good fit for you. It is very flat. Everybody is consultant and there is no promotion ladder. You could very well be a consultant 10 years later. So, if you are competitive and you want to put the hours needed to become a partner at big4 or whatever Slalom is not right for you. Slalom is very flat. People do other things after work. They have their own thing going on. They don't care much about promotion in Slalom. At least that is what I observed. Personally, I care to have a career path because I don't want to stay in the same title 3-4 years later. This might bother you as well if you are similar to me. But on the bright side, no pressure for progression. As long as you deliver your client work you are good. Job is secure. And, your other projects can progress outside of work. - Work is mostly staff augmentation. Don't expect to advice XYZ company to expand in China market. You do excel stuff and PowerPoint stuff. Typical big4 work. - no MBA, education or school support.

Slalom Response

10y

This is John Tobin. Thanks for your review. I’m glad to hear that the Slalom culture, the no-unwanted-travel policy and the caliber of your colleagues are all major “pros” for you. It sounds like you’re frustrated about permanent residency. I’d like to clarify this point: we do sponsor applications for permanent residency. We evaluate requests for permanent residency sponsorship on a case-by-case basis. Given the level of effort and the cost of pursing these applications, we have a general policy to wait at least a year before we will consider permanent residency sponsorship. If you haven’t discussed this issue with your people manager, I absolutely encourage you to do so. Alternatively, I’d love to talk with you about this issue; feel free to email me at johnt@slalom.com. If you’d like to provide more feedback but remain anonymous, send feedback to feedback@slalom.com. Thanks for considering these other ways to share so we can continuously improve.

Great company with some negatives - Consultant Slalom Employee Review

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