Slalom

• Slalom is organized and professional and diplomatic in everything they do, including policies, client interactions, and handling crises.
• They claim that people are their most important resource, and that actually rings true in a few areas of the company.
• If you are an extrovert and like to socialize, this could work for you, and you get invites to one or two company-sponsored events every day.
• They have some pretty high-profile clients.
• They have embraced AI like they should early and with a lot of resources.

• Low pay with awful raises. I have been at Slalom for 4 years and I am now making less than when I started when you account for inflation. My salary is about 27% under the national average for my position as well.

• I get their attempt at making promotions equality based, but it's a huge roadblock. In order to get promoted, you basically have to go through a lengthy application process and go in front of a board to prove that you should be promoted, which leads to them telling you all the ways you're deficient (which always happens, there's always a plan to "fill gaps"), which leads you to not only working hard for your client, but having to do a bunch of extra curricular (unpaid) work to get certifications etc in order to get a promotion that, by and large, you've already earned by being good at your job.

• Heavy on the bureaucracy. I was in the middle of a promotion application and got moved "laterally" to another department. My new position was a senior position that I was told was at the same pay level as my entry level position that I was trying to get promoted out of. So in essence, I worked my butt off for a promotion (see above) and then was skipped over and given a better title. This may not have been their intention, but rules are rules and there wasn't a way for me to fight it.

• Introverts are punished for not wanting to engage in high stress social events. A good chunk of your performance reviews relies on you attending social events, or leading initiatives that require you to speak publicly. If you're silo'd on a client and don't really know your peers at Slalom, this can be stressful for no other reason than for Slalom to justify their expenditures into "company culture."

• There are a million and one Slalom resources and they're spread out across a lot of different websites. It's nice that the information exists; good luck finding it though.

You claim to prioritize high pay, and maybe that's true for new hires, but your existing, hardworking employees are falling through the cracks.

If you want to lose a whole lot of tribal knowledge and client relationships, keep the mediocre raises and tough-to-achieve and far-between promotions, and you'll get there quickly enough.

And we all get that you're a company with a "great culture," but making that mandatory for employees with high utilization rates by hamstringing their raises is not the way to go.