CGI reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(17,860 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 17,860 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
3.0
Nov 22, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I deal with many clients on multiple platforms. This gives me good exposure to a large section of the industry. The share purchase plan is alright but they only match you 2% which isn't much seeing as there's no pension.

Cons

They advertise "PROFIT SHARING" but they never share the profit. Every year they find a new way to alienate my business unit and after announcing millions upon millions in profits we never get a share of it come profit sharing time. There's NO PENSION which makes you even more mad when they swindle you out of profit sharing. The senior management clearly favour the Montreal business unit, as it's based out of Montreal.

1.0
Nov 21, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They were good with work/life balance issues. They have this idea of compensatory time when you work extra hours, so almost never had an issue with having enough vacation time.

Cons

The company is too corporate and straight out of the tv show "the office". Communications are handed down from the top with no explanation of the company's strategic direction and vision. They seemed genuinely proud to be the "8th largest" IT company in the world, and never did management explain if/how they planned to move up in that ranking. Reviews and promotions were arbitrary and often you could be promoted without a pay raise, because raises and promotions were on different cycles!

1.0
Nov 12, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The management has no clue what you are doing most of the time.

Cons

Everything. Senior management is incompetent on a good day. Simply put, this place is a sweat shop and the employees get no respect or recognition. Long hours are expected, with no recognition or reward. Incompetence breads promotion. The company works on a profit sharing perspective where the profitability of your business unit drives the bonuses (if any) of the unit, as such, business units do not work together, in fact, they compete against each other. This place is as backwards as company can be. Through into that they are a disaster in finance and administration. Expense reports are micro managed and frequently mis-placed and/or lost. Continual errors in payrol processing. They cannot produce reports on profitability of clients. It is a wonder that they can figure out a financial report for the stock holders.

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