They do not value people AT ALL - Senior Consultant CGI Employee Review

2.0
Sep 13, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

offered more salary than i asked for pays the bills

Cons

I was in the office at Markham, Ontario in the financial services division. in the 16 months that I was there I had 5 bosses change. the place is literally a revolving door, every 4 to 6 months there was a round of layoffs and people were always scared, people who avoided the knife had no loyalty to the place because they knew they are dispensable. way too much leg pulling. I have NEVER seen this much politics at any other place i have worked at. extremely pressure: every two months of work, i had one month of over time accumulated. no support: I was doing the job of a senior manager with the title of a team lead, commanding 30 people in total. With any issue in which i needed help from above, i would be left alone to deal with it. In the team in india women were paid less than the men, even when they performed better. I raised this to my boss and he just shrugged "this happens sometimes in business" is what he said and "we cannot control what the indian division pays their employees" (which may be true, but the indifference was heartbreaking) only join this place if you have no other option. and leave as soon as you can or they will just end up letting you go.

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Other teams not so much. Herding cats and you end up taking over on an IMC call for something not even in your sphere. I feel they blacklist employees they RIF. I had a great Director try to get me in with other BUs and nothing. He tried again and again. Others who got RIF'd told me the same. Not good. Also, seems people look over their shoulders looking for the Grim Reaper. Not a good way to be. And the higher ups that are in charge of client retention seem to not be the ones on the firing line, only the consultants that did great work for the clients who decide to leave. HR who is supposed to help get another job within the company are worthless. They want you to do all the work. Also, CGI is so big teams only know what they know. Learning other teams' stuff seems to be frowned upon. How can you move around? This login makes you stuck.

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