Endlessly frustrating, but pays the bills - Senior Principal Slalom Employee Review

2.0
Dec 22, 2025
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Pros

Decent salary Mix of big name and varied clients

Cons

Strong financial push to maintain a bottom heavy pyramid, including offshore or under qualified junior consultants. Extremely difficult to get a promotion or raise above Principal level unless you have an "in" with the higher ups. Very little appreciation for mentors and workhorses, easy to be overworked if you are good. Poor performers leech off competent co-workers under the guise of equitable compensation.

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5.0
Apr 15, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great place to work and life balance

Cons

Not a great palce to work

3.0
Jun 5, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Historically a 'people-first' company, until recently. Valued their people and worked to create a great, inclusive, creative culture. Lots of training and learning opportunities as well as career growth opportunities. Great support system across the markets, re: resources, advice, mentoring. In regards to client work — Slalom perfected the true client collaboration and partnership. They work with the client on finding solutions together. I had a great experience there for over 10 years, until the most recent re-orgs and layoffs (Q1 2026).

Cons

Recent re-orgs and flattening of the company's capabilities and reporting structure has led to many communication issues across the company (local vs. national) and a new system that puts the onerous on the consultant to find their next project and avoid 'bench time' between projects, now competing with hundreds of other consultants across the US for the same role. The new system is less than a year old and was riddled with issues. These changes, and major communication issues have led to a large increase in attrition compounded by many rounds of layoffs.

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