CGI life in solution architecture
Pros
Active Career progression through mentoring, training courses. Options for transfers across different business units. Great work life balance. Employees are partners and we can opt in for tax free share participation plus option to top up. Supportive culture with emphasis on fairness diversity and equality.
Cons
Although the salaries are not the top in the industry my financial advisor pointed out that the pension, salary sacrifice and shares meant you optimise remuneration through reduced tax exposure. The flexible structure does not make for automatic progression. People need to be good at networking to get good opportunities as the internal job search for projects to work on isn’t great and often people find new projects through their social networks and knowing where new projects are coming from. They need to talk to bid managers, directors and colleagues.
