Consultant boring life - Software Developer CGI Employee Review

2.0
19 Mar 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

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Cons

I worked at CGI in both India and the USA and observed similar workplace culture concerns across both locations. The only real difference was HR—India HR felt more supportive, while my experience with USA HR was disappointing. My employment ended shortly after maternity leave due to an alleged “lack of projects,” which I experienced as a layoff. I also observed what appeared to be misuse of position by some leaders, including blurred professional boundaries, preferential treatment, and expectations that went beyond normal workplace roles—at times resembling personal-assistant-style demands rather than professional conduct. Surprisingly, I also noticed inconsistent “policies” applied differently to different individuals. In some cases, it felt like the rules changed depending on who you were. When leadership became aware that someone was related to another employee in the organization, it sometimes felt like that person was singled out or targeted rather than treated objectively. Overall, these practices—whether through inconsistent treatment, perceived power misuse, or favoritism—undermine trust, damage workplace culture, and raise serious concerns about fairness and professionalism.

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