CGI Software Devveloper reviews

3.5

62% would recommend to a friend

(343 total reviews)

François Boulanger

60% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Software Devveloper employees have rated CGI with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 343 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Devveloper professionals have a good working experience there. CGI is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Devveloper professionals compared to other employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.5 stars).

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343 reviews
1.0
Jul 4, 2016
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Pros

The share plan is reasonable. Some good talent, but ultimately wasted by inexperienced managers.

Cons

The ODSC job advertisement highlighted a great deal of things, which made it attractive compared to other corporations. Unfortunately fairly inexperienced and immature managers where put in charge of the team, which ultimately contributed to a toxic working environment.

3.0
Jun 20, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

- Co-workers are great for most of them - Great promises and great mandate to start, but if ever you loose that mandate, see the cons... - Great working machine, mostly laptop. - Allow remote working

Cons

- If you're being put on the bench, start searching another job now! Chances you got a new mandate are low especially if you're on the bench more than a few weeks. Basically they try to make you leave before they have to cut you at this point. - Great laptops but poor software configuration leading to poor performing machine... Encryption and AV protection kill it. Those are both necessary but could be configured to be less intrusive and performance wise all-around without compromising much... - You have to be with the right peoples to grow in that company.

2.0
Mar 19, 2016

Consultant boring life

Recommend
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Pros

You get a portable for work. Good benefits and start salary. Some people are very brilliant there. Transfer possibilities. Open to remote work (depends...) Interesting client sites. Being on the bench often I got good at interviews. Landed my dream job at Google.

Cons

Bench experience. Slow and too much management. No innovation. CGI talks and writes cute stuff. They are doers, but not achievers. You are definitely a number within this company. You have to be "politically correct". You have to play the game and don't be honest. Bad culture. Legacy technology. Terrible HR tools. Cash cow. The whole principle of CGI is to hire cheap people and management get all the credit. Incompetence brings promotion. You want promotion, you might want to wait for a decade. No competency. Some old folk will say that things are not done this way even you give them all the good and obvious reason. Old mentaly in tech. Most people there stick to one thing all there life and they are confortable with it. Disgusting augmentation even if you are crucial to the team.

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