Pros
- Nice communities (women's network, etc) if you can find the time to attend the sessions. Likely you won't have the time unless you're a junior resource.
Cons
- Avoid entirely if you are thinking of the Salesforce practice. Talented senior leaders were let go while the least productive senior leader remains as a result of several bad decisions from upper management. - Lower than avg pay. If you are market rate, you'll be called "expensive" and they will find trouble staffing you because CGI doesn't lead have any pull in the market and their sales strategy is to win by pricing the lowest. This leads to severely understaffed projects, time and time again. When I attended an orals RFP presentation, regarding the staffing plan, the CIO at a top 5 bank asked us "Respectfully, WTF are you smoking?" - Bare min benefits, stingy holiday and PTO policy - Weird culture. Engagement Managers are arrogant and unskilled. You spend months advising them and they don't take your advice, then you have to solve the problem they created. I was almost rolled off a client engagement bc the client required work from their laptop but would not supply one. My EM suggested I was replaced, and said SMEs are "a dime a dozen." Absolutely not reality. - If you are skilled, you will be overworked. You then will be treated poorly/overlooked for promotion due to being burnt out. - Company grew 8% last year and treated us as losers for "only" growing that much. We were left walking on eggshells, and having to do even more work as our (talented) peers ultimately left. Forecasts and actuals are obscured.