CGI Group Reviews in Washington, DC Area

Current Employee – been working at CGI Group

Pros – Depending on the business group, the company provides decent options for flexible work schedules, telecommuting, and vacation. Minimal travel is required for most groups. While a huge number of the employees are average at best, there are a number of top-notch performers that keep most groups productive and profitable.

Cons – The overall compensation (salary, bonuses, health insurance, 401k, etc) is just short of atrocious. This compensation is very explicitly not tied to performance. Managers typically put little effort towards employee reviews, which end up overdue and lacking on content. The middle management is awful; most lack any form of natural leadership or ability to track basic tasks or manage even small groups. The upper management (Directors & Vice Presidents) are somewhat more competent, but that group is largely disconnected from the rest of the company (Consultants and Senior Consultants).

Advice to Senior Management – While focusing on the bottom line isn't a terrible approach for the short-term, neglecting the talented employees at the company has (and will continue to have) widespread consequences.

Current Employee – been working at CGI Group

Pros – great place to work after college. lots of young staff and a general fun environment. opportunities to move around different projects will keep you busy.

Cons – at times can be extremely slow and boring. general lack of information sharing. tough to learn new things when it seems that there is no central place to learn other than getting thrown into everything. a lot of reinventing the wheel goes on in this company due to projects not sharing anything between each other. steps are being taken to create central points for knowledge sharing.

Advice to Senior Management – sr mgmt needs to do a better job on annual reviews. these are more of a formality than something that's paid attention to.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at CGI Group

Pros – Great colleagues and easy-to-work-for management. CGI promotes healthy work-life balance. Above average compensation. Diverse offerings allow for plenty of job variety, if you so choose. Nice stock purchase plan.

Cons – Very little emphasis on career development and personal growth. Huge company where you can sometimes feel like a number rather than a valued employee. Benefits are not stellar - vacation time was just reduced and the highly-touted profit sharing is fleeting and hard to come by.

Advice to Senior Management – Place more emphasis on individual employee development through training initiatives and evaluations that are not so routine and formulaic.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at CGI Group

Pros – Flexible working hours for the consultants

Cons – Compensation to the CGI Employess

Advice to Senior Management – Fair compensation

Former Employee – worked at CGI Group

Pros – Flex and comp time, friendly people, colleagial environment, work hours are not too bad, generous vacation policy, nice location. Reasonable salary at very manageable hours. Good compensation package (dental, medical). Flexible cultur e.

Cons – lack of career path, most clients are in Government, need to expand to other commercial sectors such as financial services, tele com, health care, transportation. Sell themselves as 'business' consulting but in reality they only do IT consulting. Lack of positioning agains competitors such as accenture or kpmg. Jobs sometimes are not challenging. Management lack of focus on how to position itself as a value added partner.

Advice to Senior Management – Be strategic. Expand to other industries that are less dependent on the government sector

Current Employee – been working at CGI Group

Pros – The company has given me plenty of career growth opportunity.

Cons – Poor communication on what is expected from management.

Advice to Senior Management – Be more open with staff about upcoming change and how it will affect their charges.

Current Employee – been working at CGI Group

Pros – multiple locations
reasonable salary
Benefits are reasonable for consulting.
Will let you work flexible hours.
US staff is isolated from Montreal

Cons – It depends on the project you are on, some are great, some are just mismanaged, poor management is tolerated.
Getting promoted is based on being on the right project, if they are growing you can get promoted.
too many people are promoted and then can't produce, need to have a review structure in place to remove them or demote them.
Montreal Management, while successful, do not understand how to make the US consulting more successful
CGI does not have strong C-level access at the companies they work for, so they tend to get more technical and minor consulting gigs, unlike Accenture or IBM.
Strong outsourcing focus, yet they are very weak in the field.
If you are not on a project, you have two weeks to find a new role, otherwise you are laid off. Dumb to say the least.

Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of people who can't produce at their level. maybe get rid of the bottom 2% every year.

Former Employee – worked at CGI Group

Pros – The ESSP is very good at 100% match

Cons – Low pay, slow promotion schedule, very little in the way of positive feedback was the standard all four years I worked at the company. I shouldn't need to fight with management to get a raise that beats inflation.

Advice to Senior Management – I would suggest they work on lowering their costs in other ways than not giving their employees competitive raises.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at CGI Group

Pros – Very good people in most cases. Traveling is fun for the first 2 years. Flexible in work locations. Health and dental benefits are good just like most companies out there. Company matches stock options up to a certain percentage. Salary is only good out of college.

Cons – Salary reviews are worthless since you will only get the minimum which is very embarrassing to even talk about. Bonus are very rare and if you ever get one its not worth mentioning. Hard work is only rewarded in words. Management needs to fight more for the well being of there employees. Traveling becomes a pain.

Advice to Senior Management – Management needs to fulfill there promises. Reward hard work with better bonus's and salaries.