Pros
- Flexibility - Some variety in the work - Network development
Cons
- Lack of substance on being "consultant focused" - Managers are time approvers and focused on filling staffing opps, little more - Poor career path or advancement opportunities. The overly hyped "Career Development Framework" is poorly supported and barely used - Installed base of leadership are a clique - Work/life balance is a joke - Totally reliant on a small group of big clients - be prepared for "wash, rinse, repeat" from engagement to engagement - PTO is poor - leaders are always "looking at it" and never doing anything about it - No tolerance for differing points of view or those who don't drink the leadership kool aid - assimilate or leave - Shark tank attitude between incompetent sales team and customer account mgrs to land any role and get a warm body on it - They market the life out of the "best place to work" surveys that aren't really credible - Absence of "straight talk" internally, typical Seattle "fake nice" - Obsession with national growth and driving revenue for the owner with little opportunity for others to share in the success or maturing Slalom's practices - Slalom's spin on non-profit "contributions" are limited to employees doing things on their own time with no real investment from Slalom