CGI Group Reviews

Pros

Global company that is performing well for 35 years.

Cons

Company has so many business units that one unit doesn't know what the other unit is doing. CGI is not very well known in Western Canada.

Pros

Growth is good and good learning opporuniy

Cons

Small shop make it harder

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on top line growth

Pros

The people that you worked with made working at CGI enjoyable. We were very close and everyone helped each other.

Cons

CGI as a company is a strong company. There were times when there was too much work and not enough customer service reps.

Advice to Senior Management

It was unfortunate that current economic conditions caused job loss to members. Some employed for only a short time and others who had many years with the company.

Pros

working environment is good, with good basic equipment and suppliers, computer, ; team members are friendly and the task load is ok

Cons

there is a limited growth space available for an individual, and the technology advance possibility is also limited, and the project not that deep

Advice to Senior Management

I know it's hard to keep the biz growing for this kind size of company, but the technology feature is quite important

Pros

Good variaty of technologies
Good oppertunities to increase knowledge and skills

Cons

Middle management must develop there leadership skills. We have several good managers but very few good leaders. They must also learn to appreciate and recognise good work and develop a positive approach.

Advice to Senior Management

Middle Mangement needs to learn how to lead people. To appreciate and recognize there work

Pros

CGI is a great place to start a career. Hard work doesn't go unnoticed and it is easy to move up the ladder in terms of responsibilities.

Cons

Management is an old boys club. They are not proactive about employee retention. Rather, they won't properly compensate you unless you get an offer from another company. The sales managers throw the technical staff under the bus by selling technologies that no one has experience with. Forget about training.

Advice to Senior Management

Be honest and be fair. Compensate your employees properly and invest in their future. Implement a corporate culture based on respect and high performance instead of back stabbing and friction.

Pros

- Flexitibily for taking some time off the job
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Cons

- In December 2010, working hours in Montreal where increase from 37.5 hours per week to 40 hours per week without providing any kind of compensation to employees.
- Information sessions from management consist essentially of endless statistics on revenues and profits. Management considers that aiming at an increase of x% in revenues and (or) profits - without a clear view of how it will be achieved - is a 'plan'.
- Outside of it's subsidiaries in the US, CGI is a body shop, without any specific expertise.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the bean counters, and stop using the RH group as a propaganda machine

Pros

CGI provides lots of opportunity for diverse work assignments. They have a wide variety of projects and customers and are very open to moving employees around to different projects.

Cons

CGI does very little to encourage a work-life balance. They have caps on vacation and comp time, and ofter require very long periods of time where taking vacation and comp time are not possible. This almost certainly leads to lost benefits. There are no real policies or practices related to doing your job. While in some cases, this could lead to very efficient small groups, in most cases is leads to varying degrees of poor management which puts the burden for success on the lowest level employee who is unwilling to tolerate failure.

Advice to Senior Management

Management, please do one of two things: either appropriately compensate and reward the superstars that keep you projects running, or reduce the burden and improve middle management such that the superstars needn't be heroes.

Pros

Working at Large Consulting IT firm, can be used to put professional experience on resume. If you are lucky enough to work on a large project. Benefits, Vacation, and Salary are pretty decent and comparable to other large firms. Some large projects can be quite challenging, usually working alongside many different clients.

Cons

After a project ends, they will give u less than a month to find another project. If not they will lay you off period. Hard to move up the ladder; must be a suck up and work extra long hours to show dedication. Bonuses are meager/nonexistent for lower consultants. Also Review system where you will be reviewed by upper management on a 3-6-12 month basis. Reviews will be used to analyze further compensation, increase in salary, and promotional items. Managers can be breathing down your neck a lot. Some upper directors/managers have no lives/ work non-stop/sometimes no sleep.

Advice to Senior Management

management at CGI group will obviously be making the best choice for the company... that means they will be looking at each member and analyzing their work and contribution. Once not needed you will be out.

Pros

Flexi work timings.
If you are from Kerala then good growth and recognition.

Cons

Stagnant Employee.
No good hike.
WFH Option need to fair.

Advice to Senior Management

Fair Promotions.
Hire good Managers.