Highly don't recommend. Look elsewhere. - Consultant CGI Employee Review

1.0
Jul 26, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None. There are no pros.

Cons

They will lie to your face so they can pay you as less as possible. If you're consider going to CGI ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS negotiate higher than what they are offering. You'll be put on understaffed projects. If you know how to do the work then you gain all of the responsibility and blame if you the project fails. The person they keep around somehow and can't do anything will be ignored. They will only train you through cheap or free online tutorials and throw you face first into a project. Hired to be a budget analyst? Well I hope you can learn how to build an app server with JBOSS in three weeks. They won't give you what you need to succeed. Their infrastructure are far below par. You have to wait months for what you need and then get blamed for not doing 3 months of work in 5 days. Look to the person to your left. Now look to the person to your right. One of them will leave CGI in 6 months time because better companies pay more for better talent. One of them, you'll have to pick up the slack for because he or she don't know how to do the work.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

The team for whom I worked was great. One of the best.

Cons

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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