Staff aug work all/most of the time, unskilled market leadership teams full of former Big4 types who didn’t progress beyond individual contributor roles there. little to no training opportunities other than the standard PMP/run of the mill training , full of cliques where if you don’t fit in you get excluded. Promotions are meaningless - more you show you are drinking the cool aid/buy Slalom swag for family , kissing someone’s behind etc, the more your chances of promotion . Isn’t it telling that in my market, 75% of the office had been there less than 6 months - attrition was 40% ! I know experienced folks in my area who’d rather stay unemployed than have me refer them to Slalom ! I also know friends who are good friends of mine but don’t really have the chops for certain skills who were hired by Slalom just because they were able to schmooze , while other friends I referred because they had the real chops got rejected because they weren’t “ true consultants” (I.e non-white males older than 40, still had foreign accents, said they won’t be attending events because they don’t drink, and didn’t dress cool). I know of leaders telling people they should stick to IT roles because people from certain countries are better at those roles vs S&O or Finance etc !! Take a job here only if you lack self confidence that you won’t find anything else. I no longer refer folks here.
