CGI reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(17,903 total reviews)

François Boulanger

77% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

CGI has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 17,903 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CGI employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Beratung industry (3.7 stars).

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18K reviews
1.0
Jul 26, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

None. There are no pros.

Cons

They will lie to your face so they can pay you as less as possible. If you're consider going to CGI ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS negotiate higher than what they are offering. You'll be put on understaffed projects. If you know how to do the work then you gain all of the responsibility and blame if you the project fails. The person they keep around somehow and can't do anything will be ignored. They will only train you through cheap or free online tutorials and throw you face first into a project. Hired to be a budget analyst? Well I hope you can learn how to build an app server with JBOSS in three weeks. They won't give you what you need to succeed. Their infrastructure are far below par. You have to wait months for what you need and then get blamed for not doing 3 months of work in 5 days. Look to the person to your left. Now look to the person to your right. One of them will leave CGI in 6 months time because better companies pay more for better talent. One of them, you'll have to pick up the slack for because he or she don't know how to do the work.

2.0
Sep 13, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

offered more salary than i asked for pays the bills

Cons

I was in the office at Markham, Ontario in the financial services division. in the 16 months that I was there I had 5 bosses change. the place is literally a revolving door, every 4 to 6 months there was a round of layoffs and people were always scared, people who avoided the knife had no loyalty to the place because they knew they are dispensable. way too much leg pulling. I have NEVER seen this much politics at any other place i have worked at. extremely pressure: every two months of work, i had one month of over time accumulated. no support: I was doing the job of a senior manager with the title of a team lead, commanding 30 people in total. With any issue in which i needed help from above, i would be left alone to deal with it. In the team in india women were paid less than the men, even when they performed better. I raised this to my boss and he just shrugged "this happens sometimes in business" is what he said and "we cannot control what the indian division pays their employees" (which may be true, but the indifference was heartbreaking) only join this place if you have no other option. and leave as soon as you can or they will just end up letting you go.

1.0
Jul 2, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

I can't think of any.

Cons

Worst company I ever worked in my 18+ years of IT career. Poor Management and pathetic work environment. No respect for employees. Mental harassment by some long tenured incompetent management folks who makes disrespectful and personal comments in public, expect you to work as slave (12-14 hours each day) and force you to meet their unreasonable demands. Makes false promises during the hiring process. Lacks leadership and incapable of managing client expectations. Turnover is very high.

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