Vault’s Verdict

Slalom's local, low-travel, limited hours model is the envy of many of a consultant who finds themselves toiling long into the night in client offices far from home. There's a reason that the firm features so often on lists of top places to work--it's because (duh!) it treat its employees well. If there's any catch (and isn't there always?), it's a lack of scale: serving local clients with local employees is a great way to build a local business. But it's not going to give your resume the kind of polish--and therefore the access to amazing opportunities further down the line--that you'll get elsewhere, even if it means sucking up the frequent flier miles for a while.

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