CGI reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(17,898 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 17,898 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 Administración y consultoría industry (3.7 stars).

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18K reviews
2.0
Dec 16, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The best thing about this company is the people. There are a lot of nice, smart and hardworking people working here. They aren't treated all that well by the company, but they put forth their best effort none-the-less.

Cons

CGI sets the standard for how cheap a company can be run. We hit all our profit and revenue goals last year and to celebrate they threw us a Holiday Party. It entailed cookies and soda in our 12601 building lobby at lunchtime. I'm serious. Talk to anyone who works at any of our competitors in the industry and compare their benefits and salaries with ours and you'll soon discover how much better they treat their staff. This company scrimps over every penny they spend and you can feel it in everything they do. If you need a binder, you run to Staples and buy it yourself because the requisition would have to go through layers of approvals otherwise. They'll bring in people to give us flu shots but then make us cough up the $20 to pay for them, even though they'll be billing our clients thousands for every staff member who avoids getting sick. Cost of living adjustments are disguised as annual raises and the only time they give a real raise is if someone critical to a project threatens to leave. Stuff like that. And it's not because of this recession. In CGI Federal we hit our growth and revenue goals despite the tough economy. And well before this recession this company was treating it's staff poorly. This company is cheap, cheap, CHEAP. If you need a job and don't have other options than this place is better than nothing. But if you have alternative offers from competitors, you can most likely do much better elsewhere.

2.0
Mar 17, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You get great experience in the consulting world. You travel all around the country. If you have a good PM, you get training. If you're smart (and a little lucky), you will work on a variety of projects in a variety of industries. Great experience for a first job in IT.

Cons

They lay you off if you're on the bench too long, no matter what you contributed to the company beforehand. There are only a couple positions to be promoted to. The pay scale is lower than comparable jobs in the area. I was able to get a 15% pay increase by making a lateral move to another company. And this was in a down economy.

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