I applied through university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at CGI (Fairfax, VA) in Nov 2017
Interview
I talked with CGI employees at a career fair and was offered an interview on campus. The on-campus interview was fine, mostly behavioral with just a few technical questions to make sure you know what you are talking about. I was then invited to their building for two more interviews - both pretty behavioral. They asked how I like to lean, why I want to work there, and what experience I have that will transfer to the position.
I will say that the people that I met with are by far the nicest people I have ever encountered in the workplace.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How will your experience transfer to this position?
CGI scheduled the interview for 30 minutes and there was only one interviewer. He initially asked basic questions about background and experience. He explained about the company and was open to questions
Was super laid back and casual, the interviewer was super nice! Still had typical interview questions (describe a time where..., etc) but overall pretty stress-free first-round interview.
Lasted about 40-45 minutes as the interviewer was very conversational as well. Only advice I can give is to be personable and have a conversation.
I applied online. I interviewed at CGI in Oct 2025
Interview
Applied online, was told to connect with a recruiter at my university's job fair. They forwarded along my resume. There was a phone interview over Handshake. There was another interview with 2 parts (a technical and a personal) a few weeks later. The interviewer was around 10 minutes late with no communication which threw off the second interview. There was also supposed to be a Q&A the same day, but it got rescheduled to several weeks later. There was very little communication unless I initiated it. The whole process felt very unprofessional.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were several questions regarding how to debug SQL code.