There are worse places to work, but also much better! - Senior Analyst-Team Lead CGI Employee Review

3.0
21 July 2008
Recommend
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Pros

It provides good exposure to IT Outsourcing. I enjoy working with people around the world. If you have a good boss and a good team, you can learn a lot and add to your expertise. I am lucky that I am allowed to work from home 2 days per week, even though it is against company policy. Training is tough to get at times, but when they do pay for training, it is top-notch. I also get to travel quite a bit, which breaks up the monotony. I've travelled to a few places in the US as well as to Montreal.

Cons

Lousy benefits, no pension, no bonuses, and salary increases are a joke. Many times those who are promoted are men and are from Montreal. This is frustrating since most do not know what they are doing, in my opinion. There are too many layers as well; from architects to project management, to projects, to operations. The customers suffer because it takes much too much time to get the work done. There are also a lot of incompetent people in the company. Many good people have been terminated due to downsizing/reorganizations, but the incompentent ones always remain. The customers are not as happy with the service as they could be.

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5.0
27 Apr 2026
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Pros

Great leadership Understanding of work/life balance

Cons

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2.0
7 May 2026
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Recommend
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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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