Supportive culture undermined by favoritism and layoffs - Anonymous employee Slalom Employee Review

1.0
Apr 20, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

People at Slalom are generally nice, and supportive. The culture promotes inclusiveness, and the work life balance is great.

Cons

Around 2022 Slalom started to change. The company over hired, senior leadership said they would never fire people, only to have to fire people because they weren't bringing in enough business. Every year the narrative changed, and it became a race to the bottom where people fought for low pay raises. My manager sabotaged me in my ratings to get a higher pay raise. Favoritism has always been a part of Slaloms culture, but it became much more self evident when senior leadership would send out emails congratulating people on promotions, and also send out emails on who they fired. The company claims to have values, such as "do the right thing always," but in practice this is more of a marketing term to bait and switch people.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jun 5, 2026
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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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