cgi group Reviews

Likes

The company is open to innovation and adopts latest technology, but your growth is dependent on your project. If project work is too hectic, you won't be given a chance to explore new options or learn new technology.

Dislikes

Compensation is good but growth is slow. Again that's project dependent. The work pressure in my project was very high and i had worked 14-18 hours somedays. Managers do not value your strength, capabilities and sometimes neglect your contribution as well. Company is very good, but projects are based on managers or higher management of that project and therefore certain things are baised. Company culture is good, but you don't get time to know your colleagues.

Work

My work was hectic. It wasn't challenging in way of learning but the way projects were conducted. Always time crunch, poor planning and false promises to client to deliver a project early than the specified date. And i am speaking from my projects point

Likes

Best thing I like about CGI is there Culture. When I started my Job as ASE, I was happy in every Scenario. But I got switched to another project and unlucky me that I had suffered a lot in my last 1 year of work. There was no balance in life, no work satisfaction, Compensation or Management.

Dislikes

Because of my last project in CGI company I can say that I didn't like anything. But I had friends from different project also and they were quite happy with everything. So it depends on where exactly you are working and what kind of projects you are getting along with good team support.

Work

I started working as ASE, where I was working on C and Cobol decoding skills. I worked for 8 months in this project then I moved to Application Support Team where I was working as Java Debugger as well as with Shell scripting along with weblogic.

Likes

CGI is a good company if one wants to settle , the pressure level depends on the project where one is getting billed.

Dislikes

The biggest problem with CGI is lack of good projects to enable u to progress in ur career. Even if u r well conversant in particular technology high chances are there that u might not get work in that particular area of interest. Most of the projects here hardly have any productive work but during the appraisal time they question u about ur contributions even though u might not have taken a single vacation. The compensations are also decreasing day by day.

Work

Practically the project which I am working on is boring becoz it's purely support project. There are good projects also but it's all a factor of luck .

Likes

The company provides all necessary training to inhance skills and overall growth including technical and non technical. Because this is my first company I learnt a lot and got to know how IT company works. And If I am talking about my project team my all couligues are always very cooperative. They all from different states but still we all have good intereaction.

Dislikes

Sometimes work load is version high. I worked on festivals times when none of the team member was working. My manager did not consider my efforts during my appraisal.

Work

I worked as a tester so I have to deliver product with good quality. This is highly challenging because I have to keenly observed the application so that defects can be identified. I joined as a Fresher and learnt a lot that how tester works.

Likes

CGI is open to innovation and readily adopt latest technology. I love the the fact that i am the part of the team that market reliable,high quality products and has a global client base.Another plus point is that my colleagues come from various culture backgrounds and we work happily in collaboration. i also like the employee re-hire policy here.

Dislikes

Compensation is decent,but growth is slow. The work pressure is high. Some times i have to work 12-16 hours straight in a day.

Work

My work is slightly challenging as i have to look forward the changes from Development team each and every day and putting those changes to our environments to keep running smoothly. It will be great learning experience.

Likes

The company provides all necessary training to enhance overall skills including both technical and non technical. About my project team that always delivers high quality products with team work. My couligues are from different states and always cooperate so that we can work happily.

Dislikes

I learnt a lot from the project. Sometimes work pressure is high even during festivals times. My efforts mostly go unnoticeable during appraisal times.

Work

I am working as a tester. So I have to deliver product with good quality. Being a tester I have to keenly observed the application so that defects should not be there. It is great learning experience.

Likes

In the Beginning stage of CGI it was so good. With employee benefits. But not now. As they are getting cancelled one by one.

Dislikes

The employee benefits are getting cancelled one by one. And seems to be all the employee benefits will be cancelled at a point of time.

The current management of my team don’t take care of the junior employee, they put much pressure on them, hence they struggle a lot, and no proper training are given to the freshers to improve their technical skills. The current management try only to safe guard it self not the entire team. No Team work all plays a much politics.

Work

MSBI development and support

Likes

I liked that I came out alive.

Dislikes

Its a 'Lala' company, no work culture, everything is done on ad-hoc basis. Late night working hours which lead to heath issues. CGI is least bothered about your well being, they will even pull you out of your death bed for there work. Employees are used till CGI feels they are needed & then will make a plot to throw them out. Full politics, its doesn't have a conducive environment for honest, hardworking person. Managers are incompetent.

Work

I worked in CGI for 1.5 years. I handled network infra of one of the client. Handling incidents, tickets, P1/P2 calls.

Likes

There will be a great work life balance. Unlimited work from home options in many projects. The company won't track you on the number of hours you spent in their campus and only what value you deliver to the business matters. Also a good job security, bench employees are very much minimal numbers. Company also give you an opportunity to be a share holder through SPP plan. You can get good returns than you spent on company shares.

Dislikes

Nothing can be highlighted in work level. As basically a Canadian based company on-site opportunities are minimal, but it depends on projects.

Work

Challenging but peacefull and flexible environment.

Likes

Frequent training seminars, skill portals, internal heckathon provides good opportunity to learn and understand the current software trends. For graduates, it's a great company to start with.

Dislikes

Support projects don't have much to offer and growth is slow. Members are allowed to switch projects but that's a very long process. Consider one year to go waste with regards to appraisal.

Work

My work was to develop and support software applications for one of the estimed clients that requires creating, enhancing, debugging programs.