Avoid Sales roles - Sales Executive Slalom Employee Review

1.0
Apr 17, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

People are generally great and it seemed like a decent place to work if you're a Consultant.

Cons

Still very localized in terms of sales team structure, which means you have local market leaders (former Consultants) running the sales teams. Very little direction from corporate, other than an awful company-wide sales comp plan. Plan was based on billed revenue and local leadership made the numbers high enough to where quarterly bonuses were virtually impossible, since you aren't paid any % unless you hit the astronomical goal. Zero ramp-up period when joining so you're expected to sell $500-750k+ in net-new billed revenue in each Quarter, with no existing book of business and very few existing MSA's. Average deal size across Slalom is $300k. Sales is used as a marketing, cold calling, and "who do you know" engine before they move on to a firm that appreciates the role.

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5.0
Apr 15, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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