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I enjoy it. Lots of variety, the raging assholes are usually cycled out quickly, and you only travel if you volunteer. Good pay, good coworkers. The benefits package generally isn't as good as Big 4 and sometimes the variety is just a random assortment of boring, but also: no scatterplots.
Local market here. Came from a research background but a larger organization. I've enjoyed the entrepreneurial part of the org. I've gone fairly quickly from saying "I'd like to get more involved in x" to being asked to contribute or lead x in short time. Ability to sell takes precedence over most other skills I'd say as well.
I have come to realize that slalom is accenture without the BS overhead and super nice people.
Sometimes that niceness comes back to bite us....when we should be telling someone that their ppt sucks for the 3rd tome or telling someone to jump on a plane to talk to the client we wont.
When we have also gone so far down the cloud path that we are pitching ridiculous solutions that have no business being in the cloud.
Basically slalom is what happens when you let the techies run the show.
That being said...im not actively shopping and im still recruiting friends here. But lets just say my eyes are fully open
I switched from Accenture. Slalom used to have more of a boutique feel when I started 3 years ago, but that feeling is being slowly replaced with more ACC style business. I think it might be different for higher ups, but at the direct client facing level, it feels very much the same as Accenture. I'm considering jumping boat for a smaller boutique myself. Depending on the PM, my travel has been variable. The good ones actually care whether I have a life or not and push back with client expectations, but I've also done the travel every week to middle of nowhere in the middle of winter deal. However, if I had joined the local market vs the national market team, my travel would be limited to the area. I just like traveling a little bit and remoting in the rest of the time.
I love it! I'm local and I feel like I have a lot of say in the kinda of projects I get staffed on and I really enjoy the people I work with. There's lots of opportunity to grow & do new things. Just like any job, there's some trade offs. No travel and sometimes less exciting big team type projects aren't for everyone. But I get to go home every night and I like the pay.
This is seriously so helpful everyone! Thank you all for taking the time to give such wonderful and well thought out responses! I am pretty tired of multi-connection flights, and all of the political BS related to year end ratings and promotion and all of that jazz. I would LOVE to be somewhere with wonderful people who actually seem to care about whether your life is balanced, and would love to only travel on a project if I wish to do so. How long are typical projects people have been engaged with?
Should say...slalom is like accenture without the BS overhead and with super nice people. You know what i mean
#noscatterplots for the win
Slalom is so much better
@sc1: if u opt for XM, what's average travel %? I don't think it's 4 days a week? !
Im xm too
Max is 50-60%
We are aiming for 25-33%
If i am traveling in my same area i aim for monday to wednesday.
If i am going cross country I will do monday to thursday
OP, I didn't come from another firm but it's the main complaint I hear from new Slalomites (and old ones who then join a bigger firm). Sounds like an across-the-board benefits cut.
@sc1, would you recommend going elsewhere if you had the chance instead, or do you still consider it a pleasant environment right now?
@sc2, that is exactly the kind of thing I would like to get involved in. I have a lot of interests and would like the opportunity to stick my hand in some different pots instead of just the public sector pot forever. @sc3 would you still say it is preferable to your previous environment? I feel like we will end up with a lot of that same thing almost anywhere in consulting right now, but the removal of the BS overhead sounds delightful, and I know exactly what you mean!
@sc4, how much of a difference in benefits package did you notice? Is there a noticeable drop in things like vacation days, or which benefits specifically?
Thanks again everyone!
@sc5, travel is very dependent on projects. I've done complete remote for the entirety of a project to travel to client site m-th for months. It really depends on the pm. I can always push back, but I've definitely gotten negative feedback a couple of times for doing that since the expectation is m-th every week if needed. "Ideally" it's not but it's all dependent on client and pm relationship. All about that sales.
@op, I still think slalom is a ways off from the bureaucracy of Accenture but the culture has changed enough for me to want to find a smaller company again.
The vacation days and 401k plan are not that great though.