Great colleagues, unpleasant and disrespectful company to work for - IT Analyst CGI Employee Review

1.0
Dec 10, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great colleagues Decent sharesave scheme where employee contributes 2.5% and company matches it Reasonable focus on training/PDP

Cons

Absence policy is aggressive. On your first day off sick you are sent an email with a ‘return to work form’ including questions such as “Is absence outside of company sickness tolerance levels?”, “Has an Absence Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) been implemented?” and “Is disciplinary action required?”. No TLC whatsoever. Toxic behaviours which destroy trust with employees, e.g. withholding on call allowances payments > six months even though client has been billed. Sending fake phishing emails to "catch employees out". Constant agressive barrage of admin tasks to complete within tight timescales or your performance rating will be slashed even though you've done great in you "day job". CGI Intranet only functions from a company laptop, not via the Portal where most of the links are broken, most notably to their health and well being site "Oxygene".

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Great leadership Understanding of work/life balance

Cons

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2.0
May 7, 2026
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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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