CGI reviews

Unformed corporate services infrastructure, 'drink the kool ade' ring to internal communications, sales-driven culture, absence of robust leader-of-the-pack strategic plan; heads of CGI still think it's a small company in an industry that will forever be expanding - this is not the case, and the IT consulting industry will eventually pass it by if it doesn't realize that a sales force making a certain number of sales calls per week should not be the core measure for business development.

The flip side is that the focus on process is often only skin-deep. When talking to clients, CGI likes to tout its ISO-certified project management and HR processes, but in practice only the higher levels of management concern themselves with process. The project teams manage themselves no differently than any other company. In addition, like any consulting company, your experience as an employee can vary a lot depending on what projects you are working on. Most of my time at CGI was spent on the client's site, and CGI made little effort to engage me beyond sporadic performance reviews. It would be easy to become lost in a company like CGI.