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It really sucks to be the only ones not whining on FB about how hard life is when you don’t get to see anyone or anything you like that isn’t alcohol for 4 days a week, yknow? Major propaganda, I tell you 🤘
All the slalom consultants I've worked with have been very slow to pick up and usually get rolled off
I went for culture and work-life balance. I boomeranged to Deloitte after 3 months to prevent my brain from turning to mush.
Eager for the Slalom propaganda and recruiting pitches to begin on this thread
A couple things to note: it varies wildly city-by-city. And the 'basic' part *might* be due to Slalom's whole hang up about jargon. We are all constantly trained to use plain language and to be 'our authentic selves'. Sometimes that works to our advantage (when explaining a roadmap to a stakeholder), and sometimes it makes us look dumb (like with you).
Slalom is certainly not for everyone, and some offices aren't even for *me*. I see some cities who run their operations as staff aug machines that I wouldn't touch in a billion years. I see others, though, who are doing incredible work and competing with Big4 and MBB on strategy engagements and hiring CTOs and ECDs and PHDs.
It's a totally mixed bag. If you want to do things right, be able to create your own team, be accountable to 1 (maybe 2) people, with the backing of a billion-dollar start-up - then you'll love it here.
Provided you don't go to one of the crap cities.
Oh, and if you like it, you'll REALLY like it. Even the shortsighted platform selling implementation people are, like, eerily happy. That really does change the whole game. The culture and mindset, if it meshes with you, is very powerful. I am definitely happier and feel like I'm doing more good now than I ever did at D.
Slalom = glorified staff aug machine. Interviewed with them and was surprised at how basic some of their Sr level folks came off. It felt like I was about to go from college to middle school
SC2 Great list and I agree with your assessment 👏
Thank you Slalom people
I've gotten an interview with them before. The main pitch is local work, generally flat hierarchy (which you can also find in typical consulting companies depending on the group), and less work hours on average (but can vary of course). Can be great if you're burned out or looking to slow down for personal reasons but don't want to leave consulting. There's usually a salary downgrade of about 10% or less.
So... list a good cities would be great. If not, a suggestion of those to stay away from.
Accenture 3 - the pot calling the kettle black a bit?
Ok - the cities.
WARNING: This is super subjective, as I'm a Customer Strategy geek and product designer, so my lens is specific to that kind of world view. Also, I'm only a few years in, so my assessments may be raw and I'm filling gaps with hearsay.
Known for complex transformational work:
Denver*
Seattle
San Diego
San Francisco
St. Louis
Atlanta*
Minneapolis
Toronto
DC
Chicago*
Cities known as more staff-aug:
Chicago*
Atlanta*
Denver*
Houston
Dallas
Boston
Portland
Philly
Phoenix
LA
NYC
Detroit
*On both lists because they are huge offices, work quality depends on group/day/coin toss
THIS LIST WILL CHANGE. Monthly, yearly, who knows? Slalom is super fluid and many of the offices on the second list are being 'reformed' with new management and/or a new POV. It's an employee owned company, and employee opinions steer things. Not being public and over 1B in size makes things super interesting in that way.
Slalom 2 🤝 - thank you.
Thanks slalom 2. Looking at LA office at their analytics and customer engagement practices
LA is turning over a new leaf from what I hear. The OC/SD office is kinda leading the Cali pack when it comes to landing influential work. There is a big future for the LA office, for sure - and they're financially healthy. Some of the gripes I've heard from LA peeps:
"We could definitely have sexier clients"
"My commutes suck already, and they change every time I land on a new project"
"The salespeople sell solutions or individuals, and have trouble wrapping their head around strategic selling."
But that's now. You could literally help change that. We're almost flat as an org and loud voices rise up.
I've heard Slalom pays about 20% more if you only consider base pay. This would be for an M1 at Accenture
I had a bump in base and less bonuses, about the same total comp with a bump in title.
@D2 - Their Experience and Engagement areas are the areas I'm referring to.
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