I applied through other source. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at CGI (Markham, ON) in Apr 2014
Interview
recruiter called me and asked me a few questions about my work for about 10 minutes over the phone. A few days later I was asked to go to Markham for interview. The interviewer was about 15 minutes late and the hiring manager that was supposed to be there didn't show up.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They seemed mostly interested in making sure that I had experience working for a major bank, which I did. They asked me about some of the projects I worked on.
CGI scheduled the interview for 30 minutes and there was only one interviewer. He initially asked basic questions about background and experience. He explained about the company and was open to questions
Was super laid back and casual, the interviewer was super nice! Still had typical interview questions (describe a time where..., etc) but overall pretty stress-free first-round interview.
Lasted about 40-45 minutes as the interviewer was very conversational as well. Only advice I can give is to be personable and have a conversation.
I applied online. I interviewed at CGI in Oct 2025
Interview
Applied online, was told to connect with a recruiter at my university's job fair. They forwarded along my resume. There was a phone interview over Handshake. There was another interview with 2 parts (a technical and a personal) a few weeks later. The interviewer was around 10 minutes late with no communication which threw off the second interview. There was also supposed to be a Q&A the same day, but it got rescheduled to several weeks later. There was very little communication unless I initiated it. The whole process felt very unprofessional.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were several questions regarding how to debug SQL code.