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Consultant at Slalom Consulting
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Seattle, WA Dec 2009 – Reviewed Apr 17, 2013
Interview Details – The interview is intense. Mostly behavioral and then followed by a skills based interview. Pretty standard for the industry. No case studies etc.
Interview Question – The questions were pretty standard Answer Question
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Consultant at Slalom Consulting
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Jan 2012 – Reviewed Apr 3, 2013
Interview Details –
First a recruiting manager will contact you to get your details and your interest on the new opportunity. second some senior technical person will contact you and ask you questions on your expertise. In few cases where they donot have resources who have knowledge on specific technology,questions will be very silly.
Then resource manager will call you with full of promises that you will find a project in matter of days in your technology, and salary will be discussed in the call.
In some cases the Director of the division/dept/branch will call you to get your long term and short term goals.
If you donot adapt to new technical skills then you would be thrown on bench for quite some time, and send to client projects where you might have work unrelated technology/role. you cannot relocate even though there is a better project in another city.You will do lot of experiments with new technologies.
Interview Question – how flexible are you in learning new tecchnologies ? View Answer
Negotiation Details – they would be little pushy to get you onboard soon.
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Solution Architect at Slalom Consulting
No Offer – Interviewed in Seattle, WA Mar 2013 – Reviewed Apr 1, 2013
Interview Details – Initially contacted by HR (Talent Management), and then met with the director. Interestingly met with the technical people after meeting with the leadership team.
Interview Question – Regular Questions. Answer Question
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Solutions Architect at Slalom Consulting
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Seattle, WA Feb 2009 – Reviewed Mar 23, 2013
Interview Details – 5 different interviews. Process was spread over 3 months. Some really dumb textbook type questions.
Interview Question – MS exam type questions Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Typical offer\counter-offer.
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Java Architect at Slalom Consulting
No Offer – Interviewed in Irvine, CA – Reviewed Mar 18, 2013
Interview Details – Contacted by the company recruiter. Did a bit research on glassdoor, overwhelmingly positive feedback. scheduled for four rounds of face to face interview. up till the last round of phone interview, i had very pleasant experiences with this company. The last round was technical and the interviewer was very picky about some 2 minutes google able questions, then was asked to do a off line coding project. never heard of this before. submitted the next day, and never heard back from them, very disappointing and total waste of time. Good luck with people who wants to get into this consulting firm.
Interview Question – Was asked to do a offline coding project. View Answer
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Consultant at Slalom Consulting
No Offer – Interviewed in Chicago, IL – Reviewed Mar 1, 2013
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1st-Recruiter called you was giving the usual and brief phone interview. She was very nice and friendly.
2nd- Manager phone interview. Just sell yourselff
3rd- Technical interview over google docs. Asked about sql statements, sorting statement
Interview Question –
Technical case- In sql does capital letters affect the code?
write down a statement that find lower case b in the table
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Consultant at Slalom Consulting
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in May 2010 – Reviewed Mar 4, 2013
Interview Details – The hiring process consists of a phone interview from bubbly female recruiters, followed by a panel of long term consultant employees. Once you clear that hurdle it's time to speak with a Managing Partner and if you're lucky the GM.
Interview Question – Most difficult question may be about your specific skill set or sweet spot and it's applicability to existing client work. The goal of the question is suited to assess your fit with planned client work, which can be tricky. Since that client work is not guaranteed, you could be hired for an engagement that never materializes and wind up on the bench for 2-4weeks until they find you another short term gig. After which, you'll be back on the bench in 2-3 months time, again. Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Ask about the bill rate for the type of work for which you are being considered. Since they take half--if you choose the variable pay model--negotiate for half since it's only fair. Note most engagements are 40 hours per week, so the variable rate is falling out of favor.
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Senior Manager at Slalom Consulting
No Offer – Interviewed in San Francisco, CA – Reviewed Feb 28, 2013
Interview Details – I wasn't looking for a change and the Slalom recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn. I went through 3 rounds of interview. All was well till the final round of interview where I realized that the leadership is not even sure on what they are looking for. There was no clear role definition and I was disappointed in wasting my time over this. I have worked with Big 4 and Fortune 10 companies so didn't really care about the outcome. But honestly the leadership team should get their act together. I think they are just into staff augmentation and do not have any decent capability to implement big projects.
Interview Question – None. It was a cake walk. Answer Question
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Management Consultant at Slalom Consulting
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Chicago, IL – Reviewed Feb 13, 2013
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I was initially recruited via LinkedIn after my resume was reviewed and was noticed for experience at a large consulting firm.
I was brought in for an initial interview and asked for 180 references and then set up on 3 subsequent interviews, all at client sites (I offered to meet the interviewers, since I was mobile and unemployed at the time. They were very willing to meet me wherever I was available, however).
My first interview was with a consultant, and we discussed day-to-day operations and expectations for an incoming consultant. He was very upbeat, engaging, and enthusiastic. He was inquisitive without being prying, and it felt very much like a discussion and a 'getting to know you' session rather than a formal interview.
My next interview was with a project manager and felt more like a formal interview. I was asked about my previous experience and my take on business problems (how would I handle a difficult client, unexpected situations, personal issues with coworkers, etc). He was more direct and business-like.
They asked the next day if I could move the third interview back to their offices, and I found out that they were interested in making an offer rather than need the third interview. After reviewing their package and discussing terms (there was little/no room to negotiate, and the package had already been slightly above my expectations) I accepted.
Interview Question – What was the most difficult experience you've had managing a team? Answer Question
Negotiation Details – After reviewing their package and discussing terms (there was little/no room to negotiate, and the package had already been slightly above my expectations) I accepted.
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Client Service Lead at Slalom Consulting
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in San Francisco, CA May 2012 – Reviewed Dec 29, 2012
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My interview process with Slalom was long and drawn out, but that was mostly due to my preference to be sure of my decision before making a switch. I had been a longtime Accenture employee and originally reached out to a Slalom HR contact on LinkedIn. I had heard of many colleagues making the switch to Slalom and heard good things.
My interview process was stretched over four months, juggling around vacations and a busy project schedule. Around the same time, I was also interviewing with Point B and North Highland. I felt like there was a clear advantage in Slalom's HR talent and processes compared to the other two companies. North Highland's HR function was in LA and they were at times non responsive and even unscheduled an interview without calling me to clear it up. Point B's HR team was adequate, but the challenge was the point person during the process was a senior partner. It was good to have that type of insight, but in this case that person did not always have the time or the experience to handle recruiting questions, negotiations, etc.
Slalom's HR team was very qualified, friendly and extremely capable. You may wonder why I weighed the HR capability so heavily, but in order for a consulting company to grow you need to be able to win the war for talent. That will help me achieve my sales goals and desire to work with the best people possible.
Through the process the interviews focused on behavioral and experience type questions. The interviewer also spent a lot of time focused on me as a person seeming to determine the culture fit. That is a big part of their interview process. They are not just looking for bodies, but people that will help maintain and improve the positive, fun, smart culture of the office.
Interview Question – Questions were all fairly straight forward Answer Question
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