CGI reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(17,875 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 17,875 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
Jan 30, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work from home option Good work life balance Good if you are settled in your life & want to focus more on family & not learning and growth I wanted growth in my life & was lucky to have moved on from this company, but I had to do that with lots of struggle. Think twice before joining so that you don't have to undergo this mental stress at all

Cons

The company is full of false promises People joining here as software engineers are made to work on age-old technologies & thus lose the opportunity to learn new things which reduces their market value People joining as business analysts are made to do manual testing which is not a work of a business analyst at all which again makes them unemployable outside Most of the quality work is reserved for on-site people in US & Canada hence Indians are expected to do menial works. Company management has a 20-year-old philosophy notwithstanding the present market scenario of IT industry I was hired as a business analyst & for a pre-sales role (as per job description). I've worked for almost 1.5 years as a manual tester. Few managers think they are like untouchable super gods & treat their employees like slaves & use abusive languages

2.0
Jan 25, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Large Canadian company. Financially stable company. Share purchase plan.

Cons

Have to work in CGI office (used to be able to work from home) Constant reorganizations and layoffs short term thinking of management

1.0
Jan 16, 2018

Idea good, execution lacking

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

ODSC (internal) culture, relaxed and mutually supportive without the hipster/techbro stereotype Enlightened attitude to tech - except for a few more sensitive projects, generally if a new library or approach is alright with the tech lead then that’s all the approval you need. No corporate paperwork for trivial technical changes. Junior people get more opportunity to do higher-level work than in most other places (though that's partly due to the lack of seniors - see 'Cons') Semi-flexible working (has to be a fixed start/end time agreed in writing - but you can change it from the standard 9-5.30) Good pension scheme: maximum 8% employee contribution results in 10.5% employer contribution

Cons

Absolutely no buy-in from the rest of the company for the Agile model or supposed "startup culture" Work-life balance can be poor to non-existent if you get a "bad" project. Consistent under-resourcing of projects means the "bad" ones often outnumber the "good" ones Starting salaries are average, and quickly become uncompetitive given below-inflation annual increases Difficulty in attracting people at senior/leadership level (because of salaries) means there's too much tolerance of mediocrity Career system is a confused mess

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