Need to remove people who can't produce at their current level. - Senior Consultant CGI Employee Review

2.0
Jun 13, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

multiple locations reasonable salary Benefits are reasonable for consulting. Will let you work flexible hours. US staff is isolated from Montreal

Cons

It depends on the project you are on, some are great, some are just mismanaged, poor management is tolerated. Getting promoted is based on being on the right project, if they are growing you can get promoted. too many people are promoted and then can't produce, need to have a review structure in place to remove them or demote them. Montreal Management, while successful, do not understand how to make the US consulting more successful CGI does not have strong C-level access at the companies they work for, so they tend to get more technical and minor consulting gigs, unlike Accenture or IBM. Strong outsourcing focus, yet they are very weak in the field. If you are not on a project, you have two weeks to find a new role, otherwise you are laid off. Dumb to say the least.

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Great leadership Understanding of work/life balance

Cons

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2.0
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Pros

The team for whom I worked was great. One of the best.

Cons

Other teams not so much. Herding cats and you end up taking over on an IMC call for something not even in your sphere. I feel they blacklist employees they RIF. I had a great Director try to get me in with other BUs and nothing. He tried again and again. Others who got RIF'd told me the same. Not good. Also, seems people look over their shoulders looking for the Grim Reaper. Not a good way to be. And the higher ups that are in charge of client retention seem to not be the ones on the firing line, only the consultants that did great work for the clients who decide to leave. HR who is supposed to help get another job within the company are worthless. They want you to do all the work. Also, CGI is so big teams only know what they know. Learning other teams' stuff seems to be frowned upon. How can you move around? This login makes you stuck.

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