CGI reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(17,692 total reviews)

François Boulanger

77% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

CGI has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 17,692 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CGI employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.5 stars).

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18K reviews
1.0
Feb 16, 2024

Utterly broken culture

Recommend
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Pros

Friendly coworkers who will go out of their way to help one another. Lots of great training options available (provided you do it on your own time)

Cons

The culture of this company is completely, utterly broken. CGI only cares about one thing: billable hours. Anything else is expected to be done on your own time, including attending mandatory company meetings. Even "mandatory" training is expected to be done outside your 40 hours of billable time to a client. And it doesn't matter if you go weeks and weeks billing more than 40 hours to a client, if you even go under 40 hours of billable time for one single week, they get upset. I'm astonished that they even deign to allow you vacation or sick time without expecting you to make up the hours in the same week. On top of all that, the benefits are mediocre, at best. They only offer a high deductible health plan, the dental is worthless, life insurance is terrible, etc. What's more, they "talk" a LOT about diversity and inclusion on one hand, but on the other hand they eagerly take contracts from governments and businesses that are actively working to oppress and take away the rights of women and minorities without a second's hesitation. Because, for all their talk, they only care about profit margins.

1.0
Mar 25, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Good relationships and like-minded colleagues

Cons

Silent mass-layoffs that contradict with press releases that promise no layoffs

1.0
Aug 10, 2023

Terrible

Recommend
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Pros

The pay was just OK but not worth ALL the hassle when other jobs will have the background done within. Week and pay for fingerprinting

Cons

Terrible hiring process It went on 5 months and they kept stringing you along they asked me for prof of my monthly expenses and mortgage after telling me 4 times I had passed the background check getting me excited and I had to 75$ for my own fingerprint cards which I never had to do anywhere else I had ever applied. Mind you they had told me on the 4th background check that I had passed my credit check and the last part was to do a FBI background check that included them asking my references how my relationship was with my parents etc etc so unprofessional during this time I had applied at another job and my background check had passed with flying colors like always and I was hired within a week. It was the most tacky unprofessional and intrusive experience I have ever had. TERRIBLE completely unnecessary and not relevant to the job duties. I had to even ask if I had accidentally applied for a secret service position wow after all that I turned down the job I would never work for a company that is SO intrusive

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