Avoid Sales roles - Sales Executive Slalom Employee Review

1.0
17 Apr 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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
15 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great place to work and life balance

Cons

Not a great palce to work

3.0
4 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

A lot of opportunity as the company is well positioned with tier 1 technologies in their overall stack giving them a broader perspective to bring to the market

Cons

Constant change in leadership & evolving commission structure - has created a level of uncertainty in the direction the ship is being steered

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