Pros
- Decent salary for recent grads - Solid share purchase plan - WFH opportunities - Some good coworkers - Relatively quick interview process
Cons
- Weird, useless 2-week training program for college hires. You will likely have to travel to this, and you probably won’t use anything you learn. - Embarrassingly outdated HR and IT systems. - Very short bench time. You are cut after 3 weeks on the bench. Covid made this worse. - Lack of communication (especially when stuck on the bench). - Low vacation time. And to make it worse, you’ll likely have to use a lot of it on days when the client is off and CGI is not. They’re incredibly cheap. - Bad yearly bonus system that pretty much relies on the entire company’s performance. You probably won’t get a dime. - Unclear expectations from the start. - Hard to move up in the company. I never really saw a path to advancement in my time there. You are a number here. They’re just trying to make you billable regardless of whether your skills and experience fit the role. It seemed worse for recent grads with less experience. They stick you in this generic training program for a couple weeks where you learn nothing and then just dump you into a random opening without your input. A lot of the college hires I met were gone within a few months. Not surprising. Even when they ask for your input on an opening when you’re on the bench, you feel pressured to just go with it so you don’t run up your bench time and get canned. I didn’t feel supported here.
