CGI reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(17,864 total reviews)

François Boulanger

78% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

CGI has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 17,864 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 et conseil aux entreprises industry (3.5 stars).

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18K reviews
1.0
Jun 21, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Not many. I work as a contractor and pretty much every pro is on the client side of things, not CGI's side.

Cons

CGI forces you to get health insurance with them, doesn't pay for all of it, and makes you choose between plans that take up most of your paycheck, or plans that have $3,000 deductibles, something I would never meet in a typical year, meaning the basically pays for nothing. They make you use Paid Time Off even if you are told not to come to work for weather related reasons, and this year for Juneteenth, even though it was a federal holiday and the entire facility was closed, they made us use PTO for that, too. They give you zero sick time, and if you need sick time off you either use PTO or Leave Without Pay, which they only give you a small amount of, and if you use all of that in a year you get fired. They pay very low wages and sometimes it's up to 6 years before you get any kind of raise at all. They force you to do overtime on weekends even though for direct employees of the client, overtime is optional. All this is just the tip of the iceberg. They just generally show a blatant disregard for contractor employees, treating them as mere resources to be exploited.

2.0
Feb 2, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

- Great social life - Mostly relaxed working conditions

Cons

- Incredibly behind the times - Project managers are hopeless - A promotion gets you basically no pay rise - You have to apply for your own promotion, no recognition from management - Most new IP never sees the light of day - The majority of the workforce are grads who leave after they realise there won't be any meaningful payrises - There are very very few 25-40 year old professionals, no one sticks around and the talent is lost. Everyone has either been there for 20 years or is a grad. - Ridiculous level of corporate mentality, think inspirational posters on every wall, "experience the commitment" is ground into your soul, massively out of touch with other tech corporations such as Google and Apple - It's just not a trendy company, more like somewhere you go for an easy life and no prospects of advancement or making any difference

3.0
Jan 6, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. Work-Life Balance 2. Proper leaves (14PL+12CL) + 5 Optional Holiday + 3/4 Mandatory holiday. 3. Not tracing time management(IN & Out), and also depend on project and manager 4. Good for settle if you want to get retire from there. 5. Giving Chances to many freshers in many IT fields to start your career. 6. Free Gym facilities. 7. They have once in a week fun games, yoga, meditation sessions for one hour. That's so important for members in busy working hours. 8. 30 days bench policy and 2 months notice period and if you get a project in notice period than NP, it means company gives you total 3 Months time to be in a project.

Cons

1. Not good salary hike from past 3 years I heard many of them getting in a single digit like 3 to 7 %. 2. Not much career growth. 3. Not good learning. 4. Salary is not up to standard also. 5. No gifts and annual bonus nowadays. 6. Too much possessive for dress code except Friday.

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