CGI Group Reviews

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.

Pros

Opportunities to work with competent and pleasant people.
Still a competitive remuneration package.
Training is promoted and available when requested.

Cons

A bit too much politics in the way promotions and raises are given to employees.
Lack of compensation scale doesn t promote the equity amongst employees.

Pros

Awesome Benefits, great opportunities for growth, International Company

Cons

Lebanon, VA is a very very very small town. Great for outdoor people

Pros

Good salary scale and working hours
Fair performance appraisal given
bonus + shares at a discount
Pension plan
Medical benefits

Cons

Overtime not remunerated
No possibility to work at home
Did not receive much vacation the first year when joining the company

Advice to Senior Management

Empower employees more
Brain storming and creative ideas of employees should be encouraged
Some team activity meetings outside of company premises should be welcomed

Pros

Office layout and location - Really good! Can do remote work (if that is what you want)

Cons

Sinking because of poor management, this company has no future.
It is painstaking to note how incompetent the management of this company is. My perspective is somehow narrow but not enough so to prevent me to see how poor the management of this company is. After all it is not entirely their fault: here you get promoted thanks to corridor chats ability and seniority, plain simple. Ask around to other employees (even managers) and that is not just my opinion but a consolidated fact. Lately it also helps to be of female gender.
The company is so pathetically unproductive that is now desperately seeking to gain ground by adding more control, which translates into unneeded overhead which is never accounted for in any cost-benefit analysis carried out (if any...) in management rooms. It is very obvious that the company has now the agility of an elephant and in this industry obviously you can't survive with those characteristics (but go an explain it to the so called management....). Also there is a chronic problem of hiding the dust under the carpet and the inability to take firm, groundbreaking decisions. Never a change for the better is chosen, rather the change that seems to bring the most short-term savings.
I thought IBM was bad, and in fact is (I.T. sweatshop is what it describes it better), but I got to admit that the average productivity of an IBM employee is 4x the one of a CGI's one.
I would suggest this place for clerical workers only. This is the core-business of the company, whether it admits it or not. If you want to hide or pretend to be busy and surfing instead the internet (even better if working from home, something the company actually encourages: of course, it brings savings! Productivity loss? Naaaah, too difficult to assess and measure, just forget it....) this may be a company you'll enjoy. Your boss will have no clue of what you are doing and, don't worry: it is just normal here!

Advice to Senior Management

Company production: 20% deliveries, 80% overhead compliance. Trust me, I am not exaggerating. Now, we are not Hydro Quebec or or the Ville of Montreal: we cannot survive this way. It is no surprise we are losing the major clients and not getting new ones. Perhaps the most effective solution would be to close entirely the Canadian operations and offices and rely only on the US ones which seem to be the only ones winning new business.

Pros

membership is really advanced, relation between co-workers is excellent. You have the opportunies to do all types of project, to draw your career and to do want you what you to do as long as proejects are availables

Cons

salaries are not good at all. That is the main downside of CGI group

Advice to Senior Management

nothing to say

Pros

the salaries are good compare to other places, multiple benefits, good ambiance,

Cons

workload, hours of work, avaibility

Pros

Well established
Stable
Share option
OK benefits
Growing industry

Cons

No growth potential
No support for education

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in employees
Value education
Improve health benefit
Share information

Pros

They value the fact that you have a life outside of work and that it's important to ensure that their employees balance work and family appropriately. Benefits reflect this as well. Their is a decent recognition for a job well done, although it may be a bit slow in coming sometimes.

Cons

The pay really is sub-standard. The benefits do offset it to a degree, but part of the result is a lower-than-average level of expertise within the organisation, genreally speaking (but there are a few very bright and competent people too!). The standard share purchase plan (while appreciated) does nothing to motivate better performance.

Advice to Senior Management

Consider the cost of lower pay vs quality of talent that will attract. Closing the gap to some degree will pay much higher dividends in talent base.

Pros

Flexi work culture with excellent work environment
Good HR but spineless
Fine Admin
Job Security
Good Perks and benefits
excellent transport facilities
Good place to work for women or would be mothers

Cons

No Growth
No Creativity
Shabby Projects
Mis-Management
Pathetic Managers who value sycophancy

Advice to Senior Management

Pls st luking down once a while instead of looking up all the time and start valuing and retaining talent. Its true with CGI that people leave the company because of bad managers.