CGI Group Reviews

Pros

Sink or swim environment. If you are able to swim, you will get various tasks to build you skillset and set yourself up for growth.

Cons

Pathetic salaries and bonuses! No true/clear paths to career growth within the organization.

Advice to Senior Management

It might be better to tell employees before the first week of January that you are not awarding or are restructuring annual/holiday bonuses. Also, telling employees that they shouldn't worry about their salaries b/c if they spent all of their income investing in CGI, they would have seen a better return than a salary increase is a hard pill for college hires to swallow when you are barely paying them enought to make ends meet.

Pros

Its like a easy going company to work.

Cons

U can be master in all jack of none.

Advice to Senior Management

No values for employees.

Pros

Professional and Friendly environment
Fair opportunity for growth.
Provides Commensurate compensation and benefits. Good health care benefits.
Has many offices worldwide.

Cons

Lack of Brand name recognition in the world.
May have limited industry exposure.
Leadership doesn't go after new business. They rather stick to repeated business.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to hire more sales people to go after new business.
There needs to be better coordination of internal staffing across the company locations.

Pros

flexible work culture, understanding managers, good clients, work for home, huge projects and flexibility to move

Cons

not much of learning in certain projects, quality of works lacks in certain projects, can provide better transport services to employees

Advice to Senior Management

Doing a nice job now. keep it up.

Pros

-- It has got good management.
-- i dont need to do overtime.
-- people are respectful here.
-- People are experienced.

Cons

-- Its got lower salary than the norms
-- It has high turn over rate
-- Low benefits.
-- Technologies are kinda old.

Advice to Senior Management

get higher salary for employees

Pros

good corporate culture, good projects and reputation in the industry.

Cons

benefit is not very good

Advice to Senior Management

more communication to employees

Pros

As good chance to work with some very talented people

Cons

growth oppurtunities and feedback on the work done not shared

Pros

Large and stable consulting company

Cons

Long term plans are too frugal. Moving jobs to areas with lower cost all the time without carefully evaluating the pros and cons.

Advice to Senior Management

Offer training to employees. Provide time instead of just putting it on budget

Pros

very flexible, work from home, etc.

Cons

be a traveller, expect to be on the road!

Advice to Senior Management

share information

Pros

Decent pay and decent benefits.

Cons

Management treated employees with disrespect. It seemed their goal was to force inherited staff to leave by treating them poorly and replacing them with cheaper offshore resources.